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  • 1linkages —   relationships between industries.   forward to customer   backward to supplier   vertical processing to turn raw material to product   diagonal takes single component to multiple uses …

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  • 2database — /day teuh bays /, n. 1. a comprehensive collection of related data organized for convenient access, generally in a computer. 2. See data bank. Also, data base, data base. [1965 70; DATA + BASE1] * * * Collection of data or information organized… …

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  • 3fat — fatless, adj. fatlike, adj. /fat/, adj., fatter, fattest, n., v., fatted, fatting. adj. 1. having too much flabby tissue; corpulent; obese: a fat person. 2. plump; well fed: a good, fat chicken. 3. consisting of or containing fat; greasy; oily:… …

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  • 4Epistemic community — (deutsch etwa: Wissensgemeinschaft ) ist ein sozialwissenschaftliches Konzept, welches politische Steuerung durch Autorität von Expertengruppen zu erklären versucht. Ontologisch gesehen handelt es sich bei epistemic communities um… …

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  • 5United States of America —    Between 1800 and 1914, the United States nearly quadrupled its national territory, became a world power, and created three overlapping and intimately connected forms of empire: a transcontinental empire, an informal empire, and an overseas… …

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  • 6Linkage (mechanical) — This article is about assemblies of links designed to manage forces and movement. For other uses, see Linkage. Variable stroke engine (Autocar Handbook, Ninth edition) A mechanical linkage is an assembly of bodies connected together to manage… …

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  • 7heredity — /heuh red i tee/, n., pl. heredities. Biol. 1. the transmission of genetic characters from parents to offspring: it is dependent upon the segregation and recombination of genes during meiosis and fertilization and results in the genesis of a new… …

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  • 8Jornada Basin LTER — Jornada Basin Long Term Ecological Research program, in collaboration with the USDA ARS Jornada Experimental Range, studies the causes and consequences of desertification. Is interested in spatial and temporal variation in desertification… …

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  • 9Whippletree (mechanism) — A set of whippletrees or leader bars for the two leaders of a four horse team. A whippletree or whiffletree[1] is a mechanism to distribute force evenly through linkages. The mechanism may also be referred to as an equalizer, leader bar or double …

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  • 10anthropology — anthropological /an threuh peuh loj i keuhl/, anthropologic, adj. anthropologically, adv. /an threuh pol euh jee/, n. 1. the science that deals with the origins, physical and cultural development, biological characteristics, and social customs… …

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