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  2. Rest area - Wikipedia

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    A rest area is a public facility located next to a large thoroughfare such as a motorway, expressway, or highway, at which drivers and passengers can rest, eat, or refuel without exiting onto secondary roads. Other names include motorway service area (UK), services (UK), travel plaza, rest stop, oasis (US), service area, rest and service area ...

  3. Motorway service area - Wikipedia

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    Motorway service area. Motorway service areas in the United Kingdom and Ireland, also known as services or service stations, are rest areas where drivers can leave a motorway to refuel/recharge, rest, eat and drink, shop or stay in an on-site overnight hotel. The vast majority of motorway services in the UK are owned by one of three companies ...

  4. Broadcast range - Wikipedia

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    Broadcast range. A broadcast range (also listening range or listening area for radio, or viewing range or viewing area for television) is the service area that a broadcast station or other transmission covers via radio waves (or possibly infrared light, which is closely related). It is generally the area in which a station's signal strength is ...

  5. Public utility - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. A public utility company (usually just utility) is an organization that maintains the infrastructure for a public service (often also providing a service using that infrastructure). Public utilities are subject to forms of public control and regulation ranging from local community-based groups to statewide government monopolies .

  6. Service area - Wikipedia

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    Service area may refer to: Rest area, a public facility, located next to a large thoroughfare such as a highway, at which drivers and passengers can rest, eat, or refuel. Service area (computing), a hidden portion of the hard disk drive that usually contains drive's firmware and adaptive data required for normal operation of the device. Service ...

  7. Catchment area - Wikipedia

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    In human geography, a catchment area is the area from which a location, such as a city, service or institution, attracts a population that uses its services and economic opportunities. Catchment areas may be defined based on from where people are naturally drawn to a location (for example, labour catchment area [1]) or as established by ...

  8. Terminal radar service area - Wikipedia

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    Terminal radar service area. In United States aviation, a terminal radar service area ( TRSA) is a delimited airspace where radar and air traffic control services are made available to pilots flying under instrument flight rules or (optionally) visual flight rules, to maintain aircraft separation. TRSAs most often surround busy U.S. airports.

  9. Metropolitan area - Wikipedia

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    A metropolitan area or metro is a region consisting of a densely populated urban agglomeration and its surrounding territories sharing industries, commercial areas, transport network, infrastructures and housing. [1] [2] A metropolitan area usually comprises multiple principal cities, jurisdictions and municipalities: neighborhoods, townships ...