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  2. Single sign-on - Wikipedia

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    Single sign-on (SSO) is an authentication scheme that allows a user to log in with a single ID to any of several related, yet independent, software systems.. True single sign-on allows the user to log in once and access services without re-entering authentication factors.

  3. International Bank Account Number - Wikipedia

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    A typical British bank statement header (from a fictitious bank), showing the location of the account's IBAN. The International Bank Account Number (IBAN) is an internationally agreed upon system of identifying bank accounts across national borders to facilitate the communication and processing of cross border transactions with a reduced risk of transcription errors.

  4. Gold standard - Wikipedia

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    The United Kingdom slipped into a gold specie standard in 1717 by over-valuing gold at 15 + 1 ⁄ 5 times its weight in silver. It was unique among nations to use gold in conjunction with clipped, underweight silver shillings, addressed only before the end of the 18th century by the acceptance of gold proxies like token silver coins and banknotes.

  5. Standard state - Wikipedia

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    The standard state of a material (pure substance, mixture or solution) is a reference point used to calculate its properties under different conditions.A degree sign (°) or a superscript Plimsoll symbol (⦵) is used to designate a thermodynamic quantity in the standard state, such as change in enthalpy (ΔH°), change in entropy (ΔS°), or change in Gibbs free energy (ΔG°).

  6. Standard deviation - Wikipedia

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    If the standard deviation were zero, then all men would share an identical height of 69 inches. Three standard deviations account for 99.73% of the sample population being studied, assuming the distribution is normal or bell-shaped (see the 68–95–99.7 rule, or the empirical rule, for more information).

  7. History of the metre - Wikipedia

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    An early definition of the metre was one ten-millionth of the Earth quadrant, the distance from the North Pole to the Equator, measured along a meridian through Paris.. The history of the metre starts with the Scientific Revolution that is considered to have begun with Nicolaus Copernicus's publication of De revolutionibus orbium coelestium in 1543.

  8. Battle of the Standard - Wikipedia

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    This cart-mounted standard was a very northerly example of a type of standard common in contemporary Italy, where it was known as a carroccio. [1] King David had entered England for two declared reasons: [2] To support his niece Matilda's claim to the English throne against that of King Stephen (married to another niece) [3]

  9. Standard of deferred payment - Wikipedia

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    "Money is a matter of functions four: a medium, a measure, a standard and a store." However, many newer texts do not distinguish the function of a standard of deferred payment, subsuming it in other functions. [7] [8] [9] Being a standard of deferred payment is one of the functions of money; it is distinct from: