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  2. PageNet - Wikipedia

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    PageNet. PageNet , also known as Paging Network, Inc., was founded in 1981 by entrepreneur George Perrin and ceased in 1999. The company grew to become the largest wireless messaging company in the world, with more than 10 million pagers in service, and $1 billion in revenues, before the paging industry's rapid decline in the late 1990s.

  3. Context collapse - Wikipedia

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    Context collapse or "the flattening of multiple audiences into a single context " [1] is a term arising out of the study of human interaction on the internet, especially within social media. [2] Context collapse "generally occurs when a surfeit of different audiences occupy the same space, and a piece of information intended for one audience ...

  4. Pager - Wikipedia

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    Pager. A pager, also known as a beeper or bleeper, [1] is a wireless telecommunications device that receives and displays alphanumeric or voice messages. One-way pagers can only receive messages, while response pagers and two-way pagers can also acknowledge, reply to, and originate messages using an internal transmitter. [2]

  5. Glorious Revolution - Wikipedia

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    Torbay was sufficiently far from London to provide time for the regime to collapse on its own, while to avoid alienating the local population, his troops were well supplied and paid three months in advance. On 9 November, he entered Exeter and issued a proclamation claiming he sought only to secure the rights of his wife and a free Parliament.

  6. Glossary of geography terms (N–Z) - Wikipedia

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    This glossary of geography terms is a list of definitions of terms and concepts used in geography and related fields, including Earth science, oceanography, cartography, and human geography, as well as those describing spatial dimension, topographical features, natural resources, and the collection, analysis, and visualization of geographic data.

  7. Wave function collapse - Wikipedia

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    t. e. In quantum mechanics, wave function collapse, also called reduction of the state vector, [1] occurs when a wave function —initially in a superposition of several eigenstates —reduces to a single eigenstate due to interaction with the external world. This interaction is called an observation, and is the essence of a measurement in ...

  8. State collapse - Wikipedia

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    State collapse is a sudden dissolution of a sovereign state. It is often used to describe extreme situations in which state institutions dissolve rapidly. When a new regime moves in, often led by the military, civil society typically fails to rally around the central government, and societal actors fend for themselves at the local level.

  9. Collapse of the World Trade Center - Wikipedia

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    Each collapse began with the local failure of the vertical load-bearing components of the floors that were hit by the planes and progressed to encompass the whole of the structure. Structural components were severed, releasing gravitational energy that transferred loads downwards by way of serially propagating impact forces.