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81Pacific Ocean — an ocean bordered by the American continents, Asia, and Australia: largest ocean in the world; divided by the equator into the North Pacific and the South Pacific. 70,000,000 sq. mi. (181,300,000 sq. km); greatest known depth, 35,433 ft. (10,800… …
82supercomputer — /sooh peuhr keuhm pyooh teuhr, sooh peuhr keuhm pyooh teuhr/, n. a very fast, powerful mainframe computer, used in advanced military and scientific applications. [SUPER + COMPUTER] * * * Any of a class of extremely powerful digital computers. The …
83Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — ▪ United States government Introduction , also called (1958–72 and 1993–96) Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) U.S. government agency created in 1958 to facilitate research in technology with potential military applications. Most of …
84Royal Bank of Scotland Group — Infobox Company company name = The Royal Bank of Scotland Group Public Limited Company company company type = Public (lse|RBS) foundation = 1727 location= Edinburgh, Scotland, UK key people = Sir Tom McKillop, Chairman Sir Fred A. Goodwin, CEO… …
85Chatham, New Brunswick — Chatham is a Canadian urban neighbourhood in the city of Miramichi, New Brunswick. Prior to municipal amalgamation in 1995, Chatham was an incorporated town in Northumberland County along the south bank of the Miramichi River opposite Douglastown …
86Eastern Trough Area Project — Coordinates: 57°24′54″N 2°15′22″E / 57.415°N 2.256°E / 57.415; 2.256 The Eastern Trough Area Project, commonly …
87Puerto Rico — Puerto Rican. /pwer teuh ree koh, pwer toh, pawr teuh, pohr /; Sp. /pwerdd taw rddee kaw/ an island in the central West Indies: a commonwealth associated with the U.S. 3,196,520; 3435 sq. mi. (8895 sq. km). Cap.: San Juan. Formerly (until 1932),… …
88Microcode — is a layer of hardware level instructions and/or data structures involved in the implementation of higher level machine code instructions in many computers and other processors; it resides in special high speed memory and translates machine… …
89Illegal drug trade in Colombia — Stacks of cocaine. Illegal drug trade in Colombia (Spanish: Narcotráfico en Colombia) refers to the practice of producing and distributing illegal drugs with psychoactive effects in Colombia. Colombia has had four major drug trafficking cartels… …
90Distributed control system — Part of a series of articles on Industry Manufacturing methods Batch production • Job production Continuous production Improvement method …
