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  2. National Registration Act 1939 - Wikipedia

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    The National Registration Act 1939 ( 2 & 3 Geo. 6. c. 91) was an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom. [2] The initial National Registration Bill was introduced to Parliament as an emergency measure at the start of the Second World War . The Act provided for the establishment of a constantly-maintained National Register of the civilian ...

  3. Ladd Observatory - Wikipedia

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    Ladd Observatory is an astronomical observatory at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. [2] Founded in 1891, it was primarily designed for student instruction and research. [3] The facility operated a regional timekeeping service. It was responsible for the care and calibration of clocks on campus including one at Carrie Tower [4] and ...

  4. Multicast DNS - Wikipedia

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    Multicast DNS. In computer networking, the multicast DNS ( mDNS) protocol resolves hostnames to IP addresses within small networks that do not include a local name server. It is a zero-configuration service, using essentially the same programming interfaces, packet formats and operating semantics as unicast Domain Name System (DNS).

  5. Data - Wikipedia

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    Data are commonly used in scientific research, economics, and in virtually every other form of human organizational activity. Examples of data sets include price indices (such as consumer price index), unemployment rates, literacy rates, and census data. In this context, data represent the raw facts and figures from which useful information can ...

  6. Register (sociolinguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In sociolinguistics, a register is a variety of language used for a particular purpose or particular communicative situation. For example, when speaking officially or in a public setting, an English speaker may be more likely to follow prescriptive norms for formal usage than in a casual setting, for example, by pronouncing words ending in -ing with a velar nasal instead of an alveolar nasal ...

  7. Domain name - Wikipedia

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    In the Internet, a domain name is a string that identifies a realm of administrative autonomy, authority or control. Domain names are often used to identify services provided through the Internet, such as websites, email services and more. Domain names are used in various networking contexts and for application-specific naming and addressing ...

  8. Foundation (framework) - Wikipedia

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    Foundation is a free responsive front-end framework, providing a responsive grid and HTML and CSS UI components, templates, and code snippets, including typography, forms, buttons, navigation and other interface elements, as well as optional functionality provided by JavaScript extensions. Foundation is an open source project, and was formerly ...

  9. Model-specific register - Wikipedia

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    Model-specific register. A model-specific register ( MSR) is any of various control registers in the x86 system architecture used for debugging, program execution tracing, computer performance monitoring, and toggling certain CPU features.