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  • 31Shape-memory alloy — A shape memory alloy (SMA, smart metal, memory metal, memory alloy, muscle wire, smart alloy) is an alloy that remembers its original, cold forged shape: returning the pre deformed shape by heating. This material is a lightweight, solid state… …

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  • 32Shape-based postage pricing — On May 14, 2007, the United States Postal Service (USPS) implemented a rate and structure change to combat rising processing costs. In addition to increasing their current postage rates, the USPS unveiled a major structural change to the way… …

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  • 33shape — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 physical outline ADJECTIVE ▪ basic, simple ▪ The children cut the paper into various simple shapes. ▪ overall ▪ characteristic, distinctive …

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  • 34Shape note — Star in the East from the 1854 edition of Southern Harmony Shape notes are a music notation designed to facilitate congregational and community singing. The notation, introduced in 1801, became a popular teaching device in American singing… …

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  • 35Shape-Shifting —    While the ability to change shape or take on the appearance of an animal, plant, or other being seems to many Westerners to be one of the most outlandish claims made by or on behalf of shamans, it may seem entirely ordinary in other cultures.… …

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  • 36Shape analysis — This article describes shape analysis to analyze and process geometric shapes. The shape analysis described here is related to the statistical analysis of geometric shapes, to shape matching and shape recognition. It applies purely to the… …

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  • 37Shape — The shape (OE. sceap Eng. created thing ) of an object located in some space refers to the part of space occupied by the object as determined by its external boundary abstracting from other aspects the object may have such as its colour, content …

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  • 38change — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 becoming/making sb/sth different ADJECTIVE ▪ big, considerable, dramatic, drastic, enormous, extensive, far reaching, fundamental, important …

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  • 39change — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Alteration Nouns 1. change, alteration, mutation, permutation, variation, modification, modulation, innovation, metastasis; transition; menopause; deviation, flux, turn; shift; diversion, break; reform,… …

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  • 40Shape parameter — In probability theory and statistics, a shape parameter is a kind of numerical parameter of a parametric family of probability distributions. [Everitt B.S. (2002) Cambridge Dictionary of Statistics. 2nd Edition. CUP. ISBN 0 521 81099 x]… …

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