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  2. BIOS color attributes - Wikipedia

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    A BIOS Color Attribute is an 8 bit value where the low 4 bits represent the character color and the high 4 bits represent the background color. The name comes from the fact that these colors are used in BIOS interrupts, specifically INT 10h, the video interrupt. When writing text to the screen, a BIOS color attribute is used to designate the ...

  3. Forced-air gas - Wikipedia

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    Gas-fired forced-air furnaces have a burner in the furnace fueled by natural gas. A blower forces cold air through a heat exchanger and then through duct-work that distributes the hot air through the building. [2] Each room has an outlet from the duct system, often mounted in the floor or low on the wall – some rooms will also have an opening ...

  4. Light characteristic - Wikipedia

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    In other words, it is the opposite to a flashing light where the total duration of darkness is longer than the duration of light. It has the appearance of flashing off, rather than flashing on. Like a flashing light, it can be used for a single occulting light that exhibits only a single period of darkness or the periods of darkness can be ...

  5. Signal lamp - Wikipedia

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    A signal lamp (sometimes called an Aldis lamp or a Morse lamp[1]) is a visual signaling device for optical communication by flashes of a lamp, typically using Morse code. The idea of flashing dots and dashes from a lantern was first put into practice by Captain Philip Howard Colomb, of the Royal Navy, in 1867. Colomb's design used limelight for ...

  6. Emergency vehicle lighting - Wikipedia

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    Emergency vehicle lighting. Emergency vehicle lighting, also known as simply emergency lighting or emergency lights, is a type of vehicle lighting used to visually announce a vehicle's presence to other road users. A sub-type of emergency vehicle equipment, emergency vehicle lighting is generally used by emergency vehicles and other authorized ...

  7. Variations in traffic light operation - Wikipedia

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    Flashing yellow arrow. [edit] Variations on the protected/permissive traffic signals in the United States; (1) is the "classic" doghouse five-light signal introduced in 1971; (2) and (3) incorporate flashing yellow arrows. In the US, a flashing yellow arrow is a signal phasing configuration for permissive left turns.

  8. Green flash - Wikipedia

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    Green beam of light either shooting up or seen immediately after sundown; usually a few degrees long, lasting several seconds. Hazy air and a bright green flash acting as a light source. Sea level. The majority of flashes observed are inferior-mirage or mock-mirage effects, with the others constituting only 1% of reports.

  9. Incandescent light bulb - Wikipedia

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    The spectrum of light produced by an incandescent lamp closely approximates that of a black body radiator at the same temperature. [82] The basis for light sources used as the standard for color perception is a tungsten incandescent lamp operating at a defined temperature. [83] Spectral power distribution of a 25 W incandescent light bulb.