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  • 101telescope — /tel euh skohp /, n., adj., v., telescoped, telescoping. n. 1. an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer. One of the two principal forms (refracting telescope) consists essentially of an objective lens… …

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  • 102warning system — ▪ military technology Introduction       in military science, any method used to detect the situation or intention of an enemy so that warning can be given.       Because military tactics from time immemorial have stressed the value of surprise… …

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  • 103Quasar — This article is about the astronomical object. For other uses, see Quasar (disambiguation). Artist s rendering of ULAS J1120+0641, a very distant quasar powered by a black hole with a mass two billion times that of the Sun[1]. Credit: ESO/M.… …

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  • 104Solar sail — Solar sails (also called light sails or photon sails, especially when they use light sources other than the Sun) are a proposed form of spacecraft propulsion using large membrane mirrors. Radiation pressure is about 10 5 Pa at Earth s distance… …

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  • 105Tau Boötis b — Extrasolar planet List of extrasolar planets Tau Boötis b looking at its sun (Artist s conception) Parent star Star …

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  • 10655 Cancri e — Planetbox begin name = 55 Cancri e Planetbox image caption = Artist s impression of 55 Cancri e Planetbox star star = 55 Cancri A constell = Cancer RA = RA|08|52|35.8 DEC = DEC|+28|19|51 dist ly=40.9 dist pc=12.5 class = G8V Planetbox orbit… …

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  • 107Atmospheric convection — Conditions favorable for thunderstorm types and complexes Atmospheric convection is the result of a parcel environment instability, or temperature difference, layer in the atmosphere. Different lapse rates within dry and moist air lead to… …

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  • 108gravitation — gravitational, adj. gravitationally, adv. /grav i tay sheuhn/, n. 1. Physics. a. the force of attraction between any two masses. Cf. law of gravitation. b. an act or process caused by this force. 2. a sinking or falling …

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  • 109Iowa class battleship — The Iowa class battleships were a class of six fast battleships ordered by the United States Navy in 1939 and 1940 to escort the Fast Carrier Task Forces that would operate in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Four were completed in the early… …

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  • 110literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …

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