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  2. Australia - Wikipedia

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    The large service sector accounts for about 71.2% of total GDP, followed by the industrial sector (25.3%), while the agriculture sector is by far the smallest, making up only 3.6% of total GDP. Australia is the world's 21st-largest exporter and 24th-largest importer .

  3. List of largest cities by area - Wikipedia

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    This table shows all cities or conurbations with a total urbanised area of at least 5,000 km 2, according to Demographia 's annual World Urban Areas [57] publication, that uses a consistent methodology between countries to provide comparable population and area figures. Urban area. Country. Built-up land area.

  4. Direct Ferries - Wikipedia

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    Direct Ferries is a UK based ferry travel aggregator service that provides bookings for ferry crossings across the globe. Its main crossings include mainland Europe, such as the France, Ireland, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy and Germany; North Africa, such as Morocco and Algeria; Asia, such as China, Russia, Cambodia and Hong Kong; and the Americas, such as the United States, Canada, Peru and ...

  5. Direct-access storage device - Wikipedia

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    Direct-access storage device. A direct-access storage device ( DASD) (pronounced / ˈdæzdiː /) is a secondary storage device in which "each physical record has a discrete location and a unique address". The term was coined by IBM to describe devices that allowed random access to data, the main examples being drum memory and hard disk drives. [1]

  6. Anti-access/area denial - Wikipedia

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    An S-400 surface-to-air missile system can be used as an A2/AD asset. [1] Anti-Access/Area Denial (or A2/AD) is a military strategy to control access to and within an operating environment. [2] In an early definition, anti-access refers to those actions and capabilities, usually long-range, designed to prevent an opposing force from entering an ...

  7. Municipal wireless network - Wikipedia

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    A municipal wireless network is a citywide wireless network. This usually works by providing municipal broadband via Wi-Fi to large parts or all of a municipal area by deploying a wireless mesh network. The typical deployment design uses hundreds of wireless access points deployed outdoors, often on poles. The operator of the network acts as a ...

  8. Schengen Area - Wikipedia

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    The Schengen Area ( English: / ˈʃɛŋən / SHENG-ən, Luxembourgish: [ˈʃæŋən] ⓘ) is an area encompassing 29 European countries that have officially abolished border controls at their mutual borders.

  9. Direct Access Archive - Wikipedia

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    Direct Access Archive, or DAA, is a proprietary file format developed by PowerISO Computing for disk image files. The format supports features such as compression, password protection, and splitting to multiple volumes. Popular Windows disk image mounting programs such as Alcohol 120% and Daemon Tools currently do not support the mounting of ...