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  2. System - Wikipedia

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    A system is a group of interacting or interrelated elements that act according to a set of rules to form a unified whole. [1] A system, surrounded and influenced by its environment, is described by its boundaries, structure and purpose and is expressed in its functioning. Systems are the subjects of study of systems theory and other systems ...

  3. Relational database - Wikipedia

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    A relational database (RDB) is a database based on the relational model of data, as proposed by E. F. Codd in 1970. A database management system used to maintain relational databases is a relational database management system (RDBMS).

  4. Two-dimensional space - Wikipedia

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    Two-dimensional space. A two-dimensional space is a mathematical space with two dimensions, meaning points have two degrees of freedom: their locations can be locally described with two coordinates or they can move in two independent directions. Common two-dimensional spaces are often called planes, or, more generally, surfaces .

  5. List of forms of government - Wikipedia

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    Absolute monarchies (such as Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Brunei and Eswatini) and dictatorships are the main modern-day forms of autocracy. In family dictatorships, political power is passed down within one family because of the overwhelming authority of the leader.

  6. Bukit Duabelas National Park - Wikipedia

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    Bukit Duabelas National Park. /  1.850°S 102.867°E  / -1.850; 102.867. Bukit Duabelas (meaning The Twelve Hills) is a relatively small national park covering 605 km² in Sumatra, Indonesia. It is representative of lowland tropical rainforests in the province of Jambi. Only the northern part of the park consists of primary rainforest ...

  7. List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of roots, suffixes, and prefixes used in medical terminology, their meanings, and their etymologies.Most of them are combining forms in Neo-Latin and hence international scientific vocabulary.

  8. System image - Wikipedia

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    System image. In computing, a system image is a serialized copy of the entire state of a computer system stored in some non-volatile form, such as a file. If a system has all its state written to a disk (i.e. on a disk image ), then a system image can be produced by copying the disk to a file elsewhere, often with disk cloning applications.

  9. List of chemical elements - Wikipedia

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    List of chemical elements. 118 chemical elements have been identified and named officially by IUPAC. A chemical element, often simply called an element, is a type of atom which has a specific number of protons in its atomic nucleus (i.e., a specific atomic number, or Z ). [1]