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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. Motorway service area - Wikipedia

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    Motorway service area. Norton Canes services on the M6 Toll motorway, operated by Roadchef. 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, have a toilet or stay in an on-site overnight hotel.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. Local access and transport area - Wikipedia

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    Map of LATAs in the US. Local access and transport area (LATA) is a term used in U.S. telecommunications regulation.It represents a geographical area of the United States under the terms of the Modification of Final Judgment (MFJ) entered by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in Civil Action number 82-0192 or any other geographic area designated as a LATA in the ...

  9. 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 ...