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  • 1about URI scheme — about:blank redirects here. For the spyware variant aboutblank , see CoolWebSearch#Variants. About: redirects here. For other uses, see about; for the Wikipedia about page, see Wikipedia:about. about is an internal URI scheme (also known as a URL …

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  • 2specific — 01. I don t know what you mean. Can you be a bit more [specific] about what problems your car is having? 02. If you look at the [specifications] for this new sound system, you will see that they are quite impressive. 03. Politicians never get… …

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  • 3specific — spe|cif|ic1 W1S1 [spıˈsıfık] adj [Date: 1600 1700; : Late Latin; Origin: specificus, from Latin species; SPECIES] 1.) [only before noun] a specific thing, person, or group is one particular thing, person, or group ▪ games suitable for specific… …

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  • 4specific — adj. VERBS ▪ be ▪ Can you be a little more specific in your instructions? ADVERB ▪ fairly, rather, very ▪ highly …

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  • 5Specific heat capacity — Specific heat capacity, also known simply as specific heat, is the measure of the heat energy required to increase the temperature of a unit quantity of a substance by a certain temperature interval. The term originated primarily through the work …

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  • 6Specific impulse — (usually abbreviated I sp) is a way to describe the efficiency of rocket and jet engines. It represents the impulse (change in momentum) per unit of propellant. The higher the specific impulse, the less propellant is needed to gain a given amount …

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  • 7Specific gravity — is defined as the ratio of the density of a given solid or liquid substance to the density of water at a specific temperature and pressure, typically at 4°C (39°F) and convert|1|atm|inHg|2|abbr=on|lk=on , making it a dimensionless quantity (see… …

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  • 8Specific language impairment — (SLI) is a developmental language disorder that can affect both expressive and receptive language. SLI is defined as a pure language impairment, meaning that is not related to or caused by other developmental disorders, hearing loss or acquired… …

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  • 9Specific surface area — is a material property of solids which measures the total surface area per unit of mass [http://goldbook.c60.kiev.ua/S05806.pdf IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology 2nd Edition (1997)] , solid or bulk volume… …

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  • 10Specific Area Message Encoding — or SAME is the protocol used to encode the Emergency Alert System in the U.S. for broadcast stations. It was originally created for NOAA Weather Radio by the National Weather Service, and was later adopted by the FCC for regular broadcasters on… …

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