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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. Tennessee Valley Authority - Wikipedia

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    The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a federally owned electric utility corporation in the United States. TVA's service area covers all of Tennessee, portions of Alabama, Mississippi, and Kentucky, and small areas of Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia. While owned by the federal government, TVA receives no taxpayer funding and operates ...

  4. Broadcast range - Wikipedia

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    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 sufficient for ...

  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. Motorway service area - Wikipedia

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    Motorway service area. Motorway service areas (MSA) also known as services or service stations, are rest areas in the UK and Ireland where drivers can leave a motorway to refuel/recharge, rest, eat and drink, shop, use the toilet or stay in an on-site overnight hotel. They are also a safe refuge for drivers who break down alongside leaving at a ...

  7. Coverage map - Wikipedia

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    Coverage maps are designed to indicate the service areas of radiocommunication transmitting stations. Typically these may be produced for radio or television stations, for mobile telephone networks and for satellite networks. Such maps are alternatively known as propagation maps. For satellite networks, a coverage map is often known as a footprint.

  8. Service area - Wikipedia

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    Service area. 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. Motorway service area, a type of rest area in UK and Ireland. Service area (computing), a hidden portion of the hard disk drive that usually contains drive's ...

  9. List of motorway service areas in the United Kingdom

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    Cambridgeshire. [56] Pont Abraham. Roadchef. M4. Carmarthenshire. It is located at junction 49, the western terminus of the M4 motorway in Wales where the M4 joins the A48 and A483 on a roundabout. The Pont Abraham Motorway service area was opened in 1983. It is near Pontarddulais and owned by Roadchef.