| Ada (programming language) Ada is a structured, statically typed, imperative, and object-oriented high-level computer programming language based on Pascal. It was originally designed by a team led by Jean Ichbiah of CII Honeywell Bull under contract to the United States Department of Defense during 1977–1983 to supersede the hundreds of programming languages then used by the US Department of Defense (DoD). Ada_(programming_language)
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| Application programming interface An application programming interface (API) is a set of functions, procedures, methods or classes that an operating system, library or service provides to support requests made by computer programs. Application_programming_interface
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| Ballpoint pen A ballpoint pen (Hungarian: golyóstoll, also eponymously known in British English and Australian English as a biro and bye-roe in Britain and Australia but sometimes bee-roh" elsewhere, named after its inventor László Bíró), is a modern writing instrument. A ballpoint pen has an internal chamber filled with a viscous ink that is dispensed at the tip during use by the rolling action of a small metal sphere (0. Ballpoint_pen
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| Calendar date A date in a calendar is a reference to a particular day represented within a calendar system. The calendar date allows the specific day to be identified. Calendar_date
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| Common Language Infrastructure The Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) is an open specification (published under ECMA-335 and ISO/IEC 23271) developed by Microsoft that describes the executable code and runtime environment that form the core of a number of runtimes including the Microsoft .NET Framework, Mono, and Portable. Common_Language_Infrastructure
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| Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is a standard for cross-domain information resource description. It provides a simple and standardised set of conventions for describing things online in ways that make them easier to find. Dublin_Core
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| England (French)"God and my right" England
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| Easter Easter (Greek: Πάσχα, Pascha or Pasxa) is the most important religious feast in the Christian liturgical year.Anthony Aveni, "The Easter/Passover Season: Connecting Time's Broken Circle," The Book of the Year: A Brief History of Our Seasonal Holidays (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), 64-78. Easter
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| Eiffel (programming language) Eiffel is an ISO-standardized, object-oriented programming language designed to enable programmers to efficiently develop extensible, reusable, reliable software. Eiffel is used in academia as a language for teaching computer-programming principles. Eiffel_(programming_language)
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| Fortran Fortran (previously FORTRANThe names of earlier versions of the language through FORTRAN 77 were conventionally spelled in all-caps (FORTRAN 77 was the version in which the use of lowercase letters in keywords was strictly nonstandard). The capitalization has been dropped in referring to newer versions beginning with Fortran 90. Fortran
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| Gregorian calendar The Gregorian calendar is the most widely used calendar in the world today. It was first proposed by the Calabrian doctor Aloysius Lilius, and decreed by Pope Gregory XIII, after whom it was named, on 24 February 1582 by papal bull Inter gravissimas. Gregorian_calendar
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| Glass Glass in the common sense refers to a hard, brittle, transparent solid, such as that used for windows, many bottles, or eyewear, including, but not limited to, soda-lime glass, borosilicate glass, acrylic glass, sugar glass, isinglass (Muscovy-glass), or aluminium oxynitride. Glass
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| Israel Talk:Israel
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| ISO 3166 ISO 3166 is a three-part geographic coding standard for coding the names of countries and dependent areas, and the principal subdivisions thereof, published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). The official name is Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions. ISO_3166
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| International Standard Book Number The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a unique, numericalOccasionally publishers erroneously assign an ISBN to more than one title — the first edition of The Ultimate Alphabet and The Ultimate Alphabet Workbook have the same ISBN, 0-8050-0076-3. Conversely, books are published with several ISBNs: A German, second-language edition of Emil und die Detektive has the ISBNs 87-23-90157-8 (Denmark), 0-8219-1069-8 (United States), 91-21-15628-X (Sweden), 0-85048-548-7 (England) and 3-12-675495-3 (Germany). International_Standard_Book_Number
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| International Organization for Standardization Geneva, Switzerland International_Organization_for_Standardization
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| ISO/IEC 8859-1 ISO 8859-1, more formally cited as ISO/IEC 8859-1 is part 1 of ISO/IEC 8859, a standard character encoding of the Latin alphabet. It is less formally referred to as Latin-1. ISO/IEC_8859-1
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| ISO 8601 ISO 8601 is an international standard for date and time representations issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Specifically, the standard is titled "Data elements and interchange formats — Information interchange — Representation of dates and times. ISO_8601
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| ISO 216 ISO 216 specifies international standard (ISO) paper sizes used in most countries in the world today. It is the standard which defines the commonly available A4 paper size. ISO_216
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| ISO 3864 ISO 3864 specifies international standards for safety symbols. These labels are graphical, to overcome language barriers. ISO_3864
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| ISO 4217 ISO 4217 is the international standard describing three-letter codes (also known as the currency code) to define the names of currencies established by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). The ISO 4217 code list is the established norm in banking and business all over the world for defining different currencies, and in many countries the codes for the more common currencies are so well known publicly, that exchange rates published in newspapers or posted in banks use only these to define the different currencies, instead of translated currency names or ambiguous currency symbols. ISO_4217
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| ISO 4217 Talk:ISO_4217
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| Lisp (programming language) Lisp (or LISP) is a family of computer programming languages with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized syntax. Originally specified in 1958, Lisp is the second-oldest high-level programming language in widespread use today; only Fortran is older. Lisp_(programming_language)
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| Markup language A markup language is an artificial language using a set of annotations to text that give instructions regarding the structure of text or how it is to be displayed. Markup languages have been in use for centuries, and in recent years have also been used in computer typesetting and word-processing systems. Markup_language
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| Morocco (transliteration)"God, Nation, King" Morocco
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| MPEG-1 MPEG-1 was an early standard for lossy compression of video and audio. It was designed to compress VHS-quality raw digital video and CD audio down to 1. MPEG-1
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| MPEG-2 MPEG-2 is a standard for "the generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information".ISO/IEC 13818 MPEG-2 at the ISO Store. MPEG-2
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| MPEG-4 MPEG-4 is a collection of methods defining compression of audio and visual (AV) digital data. It was introduced in late 1998 and designated a standard for a group of audio and video coding formats and related technology agreed upon by the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) under the formal standard ISO/IEC 14496. MPEG-4
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| Montenegro |national_motto = Montenegro
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| OSI model The Open Systems Interconnection Basic Reference Model (OSI Reference Model or OSI Model) is an abstract description for layered communications and computer network protocol design. It was developed as part of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) initiativehttp://www. OSI_model
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| OSI model Talk:OSI_model
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| Programming language A programming language is an artificial language that can be used to write programs which control the behavior of a machine, particularly a computer.ISO 5127—Information and documentation—Vocabulary, clause 01. Programming_language
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| Portable Document Format Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format created by Adobe Systems in 1993 for document exchange. PDF is used for representing two-dimensional documents in a manner independent of the application software, hardware, and operating system. Portable_Document_Format
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| Portable Network Graphics Portable Network Graphics (PNG) is a bitmapped image format that employs lossless data compression. PNG was created to improve upon and replace GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) as an image-file format not requiring a patent license. Portable_Network_Graphics
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| Pencil A pencil is a writing or drawing instrument consisting of a thin stick of pigment (usually graphite, but can also be coloured pigment or charcoal) and clay, usually encased in a thin wood cylinder, though paper and plastic sheaths are also used. Pencils are distinct from pens, which use a liquid marking material. Pencil
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| International System of Units The International System of Units (abbreviated SI from the French Bureau International des Poids et Mesures) is the modern form of the metric system and is generally a system devised around the convenience of the number ten. It is the world's most widely used system of measurement, both in everyday commerce and in science. International_System_of_Units
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| SI prefix An SI prefix (also known as a metric prefix) is a name or associated symbol that precedes a unit of measure (or its symbol) to form a decimal multiple or submultiple. The abbreviation SI is from the French language name Système International d’Unités (also known as International System of Units). SI_prefix
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| Scotland Alba Scotland
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| Standardization Standardization (or standardisation) is the process of developing and agreeing upon technical standards. A standard is a document that establishes uniform engineering or technical specifications, criteria, methods, processes, or practices. Standardization
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| Standard conditions for temperature and pressure In physical sciences, standard conditions for temperature and pressure are standard sets of conditions for experimental measurements, to allow comparisons to be made between different sets of data. The most used standards are those of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry and the National Institute of Standards and Technology but are far from being universal standards. Standard_conditions_for_temperature_and_pressure
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| Short message service Short Message Service (SMS) is a communications protocol allowing the interchange of short text messages between mobile telephone devices. SMS text messaging is the most widely used data application on the planet, with 2. Short_message_service
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| Standard Generalized Markup Language The Standard Generalized Markup Language (ISO 8879:1986 SGML) is an ISO Standard metalanguage in which one can define markup languages for documents. SGML is a descendant of IBM's Generalized Markup Language (GML), developed in the 1960s by Charles Goldfarb, Edward Mosher and Raymond Lorie (whose surname initials were used by Goldfarb to make up the term GML). Standard_Generalized_Markup_Language
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| Unicode Talk:Unicode
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| Z notation The Z notation (formally ), named after Zermelo-Fränkel set theory, is a formal specification language used for describing and modeling computing systems. It is targeted at the clear specification of computer programs and the formulation of proofs about the intended program behavior. Z_notation
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| IS-IS Intermediate system to intermediate system (IS-IS), is a protocol used by network devices (routers) to determine the best way to forward datagrams or packets through a packet-based network, a process called routing. The protocol was defined in RFC 1142 as a protocol within the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) reference design. IS-IS
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| Open Systems Interconnection The Open Systems Interconnection (usually abbreviated to OSI) was an effort to standardize networking that was started in 1982 by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), along with the ITU-T. Open_Systems_Interconnection
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| Data element In metadata, the term data element is an atomic unit of data that has: Data_element
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| Security Security is the condition of being protected against danger, loss, and criminals. In the general sense, security is a concept similar to safety. Security
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| ISO/IEC 8859-15 ISO 8859-15 is part 15 of ISO 8859, a standard character encoding defined by International Organization for Standardization. It is also known as Latin-9, and unofficially as Latin-0 but not as Latin-15. ISO/IEC_8859-15
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| Thai language Thai (, , transcription: phasa thai, transliteration: ; ), is the national and official language of Thailand and the mother tongue of the Thai people, Thailand's dominant ethnic group. Thai is a member of the Tai group of the Tai-Kadai language family. Thai_language
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