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  2. Exchange rate - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. In finance, an exchange rate is the rate at which one currency will be exchanged for another currency. [1] Currencies are most commonly national currencies, but may be sub-national as in the case of Hong Kong or supra-national as in the case of the euro. [2]

  3. Currency - Wikipedia

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    A currency[a] is a standardization of money in any form, in use or circulation as a medium of exchange, for example banknotes and coins. [1][2] A more general definition is that a currency is a system of money in common use within a specific environment over time, especially for people in a nation state. [3] Under this definition, the British ...

  4. Google Translate - Wikipedia

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    Google Translate is a web-based free-to-use translation service developed by Google in April 2006. [12] It translates multiple forms of texts and media such as words, phrases and webpages. Originally, Google Translate was released as a statistical machine translation (SMT) service. [12] The input text had to be translated into English first ...

  5. Vieri de' Medici - Wikipedia

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    Vieri di Cambio de' Medici (1323 – 13 or 14 September 1395) was a Florentine banker, a distant relative of the Medici banking dynasty . He was the son of Cambio di Filippo de' Medici of the Lippo di Chiarissimo branch of Medicis. His first cousin was Salvestro di Alamanno de' Medici, a Florentine patrician known for causing the Ciompi Revolt ...

  6. History of English - Wikipedia

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    e. English is a West Germanic language that originated from Ingvaeonic languages brought to Britain in the mid-5th to 7th centuries AD by Anglo-Saxon migrants from what is now northwest Germany, southern Denmark and the Netherlands. The Anglo-Saxons settled in the British Isles from the mid-5th century and came to dominate the bulk of southern ...

  7. List of ISO 639 language codes - Wikipedia

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    This table lists all two-letter codes (set 1), one per language for ISO 639 macrolanguage, and some of the three-letter codes of the other sets, formerly parts 2 and 3. Entries in the Scope column distinguish: The Type column distinguishes: Language formed from English and Vanuatuan languages, with some French influence.

  8. English language - Wikipedia

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    e. English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family originating on the island of Great Britain. [4][5][6] Speakers of the language are called Anglophones owing to the namesake of the language, the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes that migrated to Britain in the early medieval period.

  9. Euro sign - Wikipedia

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    The euro sign (€) is the currency sign used for the euro, the official currency of the eurozone and adopted, although not required to, by Kosovo and Montenegro. The design was presented to the public by the European Commission on 12 December 1996. It consists of a stylized letter E (or epsilon), crossed by two lines instead of one.