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  2. Para USA - Wikipedia

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    Firearms. Parent. Remington Outdoor Company. Custom P14-45. Para Ordnance 10-45. Para USA (Para) was an American -owned firearms manufacturer. It was the successor to Para-Ordnance, founded in Canada in 1985. It specialized in making M1911 -style semi-automatic pistols and components. The company was acquired by Remington Outdoor Company in 2012.

  3. Media consumption - Wikipedia

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    Media consumption. Media consumption or media diet is the sum of information and entertainment media taken in by an individual or group. It includes activities such as interacting with new media, reading books and magazines, watching television and film, and listening to radio. [1]

  4. Category:Mass media - Wikipedia

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    The mass media are the entire array of the media specifically envisioned and designed to reach a large audience, like radio, television, magazines, newspapers and the World Wide Web. The term was coined in the 1920s with the advent of nationwide radio networks and mass-circulation newspapers and magazines. The word "media" is widely used as a ...

  5. Sound effect - Wikipedia

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    A sound effect (or audio effect) is an artificially created or enhanced sound, or sound process used to emphasize artistic or other content of films, television shows, live performance, animation, video games, music, or other media. In motion picture and television production, a sound effect is a sound recorded and presented to make a specific ...

  6. Gadget - Wikipedia

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    History. The etymology of the word is disputed. The word first appears as reference to an 18th-century tool in glassmaking that was developed as a spring pontil. As stated in the glass dictionary published by the Corning Museum of Glass, a gadget is a "metal rod with a spring clip that grips the foot of a vessel and so avoids the use of a pontil".

  7. Smart system - Wikipedia

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    Smart system. Smart systems are systems (usually computer systems or electronic system) which are able to incorporate and perform functions of sensing , actuation, and control in order to analyze a situation, based on acquired data and perform decisions in a predictive or adaptive manner , thereby performing smart actions.

  8. Parasocial interaction - Wikipedia

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    A parasocial interaction, an exposure that garners interest in a persona, [6] becomes a parasocial relationship after repeated exposure to the media persona causes the media user to develop illusions of intimacy, friendship, and identification. [5] Positive information learned about the media persona results in increased attraction, and the ...

  9. Overall equipment effectiveness - Wikipedia

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    Overall equipment effectiveness. Overall equipment effectiveness [1] ( OEE) is a measure of how well a manufacturing operation is utilized (facilities, time and material) compared to its full potential, during the periods when it is scheduled to run. It identifies the percentage of manufacturing time that is truly productive.