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  2. The New York Times Crossword - Wikipedia

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    Website. www .nytimes .com /crosswords. The New York Times Crossword (marketed as The Crossword) is a daily American-style crossword puzzle published in The New York Times, syndicated to more than 300 other newspapers and journals, and released online on the newspaper's website and mobile apps as part of The New York Times Games.

  3. XY sex-determination system - Wikipedia

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    The XY sex-determination system is a sex-determination system used to classify many mammals, including humans, some insects ( Drosophila ), some snakes, some fish ( guppies ), and some plants ( Ginkgo tree). In this system, the sex of an individual is determined by a pair of sex chromosomes. Females have two of the same kind of sex chromosome ...

  4. Cartesian coordinate system - Wikipedia

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    Cartesian coordinate system with a circle of radius 2 centered at the origin marked in red. The equation of a circle is (x − a)2 + (y − b)2 = r2 where a and b are the coordinates of the center (a, b) and r is the radius. Cartesian coordinates are named for René Descartes, whose invention of them in the 17th century revolutionized ...

  5. Crossword abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Certificate – X, U, PG, R, G (from the film certificates) Charged – ION. Charlie – C ( NATO phonetic alphabet) Chartered accountant – CA. Chief – CH. Chlorine – CL (chemical symbol) Chromosome – X or Y. Church – CH or CE ( Church of England) or RC ( Roman Catholic) Circa – C.

  6. Pokémon X and Y - Wikipedia

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    Mode (s) Single-player, multiplayer. Pokémon X and Pokémon Y are 2013 role-playing video games developed by Game Freak and published by The Pokémon Company and Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS. [1] They are the first installments in the sixth generation of the main Pokémon game series.

  7. Sine and cosine - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, sine and cosine are trigonometric functions of an angle.The sine and cosine of an acute angle are defined in the context of a right triangle: for the specified angle, its sine is the ratio of the length of the side that is opposite that angle to the length of the longest side of the triangle (the hypotenuse), and the cosine is the ratio of the length of the adjacent leg to that ...

  8. X&Y - Wikipedia

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    X&Y is the third studio album by British rock band Coldplay, released on 6 June 2005 by Parlophone in the United Kingdom, and a day later by Capitol Records in the United States. Produced by Coldplay and producer Danton Supple , it is noted for its troubled and urgent development, as well as manager and creative director Phil Harvey 's brief ...

  9. Yin and yang - Wikipedia

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    Yin and yang ( English: / jɪn /, / jæŋ / ), also yinyang [1] [2] or yin-yang, [3] [2] is a concept that originated in Chinese philosophy, describing an opposite but interconnected, self-perpetuating cycle. Yin and yang can be thought of as complementary (rather than opposing) forces that interact to form a dynamic system in which the whole ...