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  • 1inoperable — adjective 1 an inoperable illness or tumour (=lump) cannot be treated or removed by a medical operation: an inoperable spinal tumour 2 an inoperable system or method is not practical and therefore cannot be used …

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  • 2Inoperable capacity —   Generating capacity that is totally or partially out of service at the time of system peak load, either for scheduled outages (see GADS definition of scheduled outages. These include both maintenance outages and planned outages.) or for reasons …

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  • 3Distributed operating system — A distributed operating system is the logical aggregation of operating system software over a collection of independent, networked, communicating, and spatially disseminated computational nodes.[1] Individual system nodes each hold a discrete… …

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  • 4Domain Name System — The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical distributed naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network. It associates various information with domain names assigned to each of the… …

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  • 5Fire sprinkler system — A fire sprinkler system is an active fire protection measure, consisting of a water supply, providing adequate pressure and flowrate to a water distribution piping system, onto which fire sprinklers are connected. Although historically only used… …

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  • 6Optical landing system — The Fresnel Lens Optical Landing System of Charles de Gaulle An optical landing system (OLS) (nicknamed meatball or simply, Ball ) is used to give glidepath information to pilots in the terminal phase of landing on an aircraft carrier.[1] From… …

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  • 7Optical Landing System — An Optical Landing System (OLS) is used to give glidepath information to pilots in the terminal phase of landing on an aircraft carrier. [Aircraft Launch and Recovery Operations Manual http://www.lsoschool.org/images/stories/files/pubs/Instruction… …

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  • 8Incident Command System — The Incident Command System (ICS) is a standardized, on scene, all hazard incident management concept in the United States. It is a management protocol originally designed for emergency management agencies and later federalized. ICS is based upon …

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  • 9National Communications System — NCS seal The National Communications System (NCS) is an office within the United States Department of Homeland Security charged with enabling national security and emergency preparedness communications (NS/EP telecommunications) using the… …

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  • 101A2 Key System — The 1A2 Key System is an analog multiline business key telephone system. Unlike more modern multiline systems, every telephone line serving a particular phone is wired into that phone, and electromechanical switches (the keys ) switch the lines… …

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