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  2. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

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    First edition of the book. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (commonly called the Principles of Human Knowledge, or simply the Treatise) is a 1710 work, in English, by Irish Empiricist philosopher George Berkeley. This book largely seeks to refute the claims made by Berkeley's contemporary John Locke about the nature of ...

  3. List of generic names of political parties - Wikipedia

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    United Democratic Party. Equality Party. Fascist Party. Fatherland Party and Fatherland Union. Union of Democratic Forces. Free Democratic Party. First Party. Freedom Party. Green Party.

  4. Placeholder name - Wikipedia

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    Placeholder name on a website. Placeholder names are intentionally overly generic and ambiguous terms referring to things, places, or people, the names of which or of whom do not actually exist; are temporarily forgotten, or are unimportant; or in order to avoid stigmatization, or because they are unknowable or unpredictable given the context of their discussion; to de-emphasize in which event ...

  5. List of screen readers - Wikipedia

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    Read:OutLoud from Don Johnston, Inc. Screen Reader from SourceBinary.com (no longer available, latest trial version can be obtained from other download sites) SodelsCot [23] from Sodels Factory. TextAloud from NextUp.com. Ultra Hal TTS Reader from Zabaware, Inc. yRead from Spacejock Software.

  6. Multisample anti-aliasing - Wikipedia

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    A stochastic sample pattern is a random distribution of multisamples throughout the pixel. The irregular spacing of samples makes attribute evaluation complicated. The method is cost efficient due to low sample count (compared to regular grid patterns). Edge optimization with this method, although sub-optimal for screen aligned edges.

  7. Stevenson screen - Wikipedia

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    Stevenson screen. Exterior of a Stevenson screen. A Stevenson screen or instrument shelter is a shelter or an enclosure used to protect meteorological instruments against precipitation and direct heat radiation from outside sources, while still allowing air to circulate freely around them. [1] It forms part of a standard weather station and ...

  8. News ticker - Wikipedia

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    News ticker. An example of a television news ticker, at the very bottom of the screen. A news ticker (sometimes called a crawler, crawl, slide, zipper, or ticker tape) is a horizontal or vertical (depending on a language's writing system) text-based display either in the form of a graphic that typically resides in the lower third of the screen ...

  9. Screensaver - Wikipedia

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    A screensaver (or screen saver) is a computer program that blanks the display screen or fills it with moving images or patterns when the computer has been idle for a designated time. The original purpose of screensavers was to prevent phosphor burn-in on CRT or plasma computer monitors (hence the name). [citation needed]