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  • 121Descartes (crater) — Coordinates 11°42′S 15°42′E / 11.7°S 15.7°E / …

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  • 122Nicholson (Martian crater) — This article is about the crater on Mars. For other craters named Nicholson, see Nicholson (crater) Nicholson Planet Mars Coordinates …

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  • 123Indigo Digital Press — Indigo is the name given to a series of Digital Offset Printing Presses made by the Hewlett Packard Company in Israel.The main uses for HP Indigo presses include general commercial printing, label, flexible packaging, folding carton and specialty …

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  • 124Surgical suture — For other uses, see Suture (disambiguation). Surgical suture on needle holder. Packaging shown above. Surgical suture is a medical device used to hold body tissues together after an injury or surgery. It generally consists of a needle with an… …

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  • 125crawl — crawl1 crawlingly, adv. /krawl/, v.i. 1. to move in a prone position with the body resting on or close to the ground, as a worm or caterpillar, or on the hands and knees, as a young child. 2. (of plants or vines) to extend tendrils; creep. 3. to… …

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  • 126MACHPELAH, CAVE OF — (Heb. מְעָרַת הַמַּכְפֵּלָה). The word Machpelah, which in the Bible always appears with a definite article, is variously the name of a cave (Gen. 23:9, 19; 25:9); a field, the cave which is in the field of Machpelah (Gen. 49:30); and a place,… …

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  • 127crawl — [[t]krɔl[/t]] v. i. 1) to move in a prone position with the body close to the ground, as a worm or caterpillar, or on the hands and knees 2) to move or progress slowly or laboriously: a line of cars crawling toward the beach[/ex] 3) to behave in… …

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  • 128continental glacier —    A glacier of considerable thickness completely covering a large part of a continent or an area of at least 50,000 square km, obscuring the underlying surface, such as the ice sheets covering Antarctica or Greenland. Continental glaciers… …

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