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Obsolete technology Replacement Still used for Bathing machine: No longer required due to changing social standards of morality Hourglass: Clock: Tasks where a fixed amount of time can be measured with a low-tech solution: Exposure time tracker in saunas (where electronics might be damaged by the heat or ultraviolet light); retro kitchen timers, board games, other short-term timers.
(Antibiotics could still be used to cure illnesses, but they are no longer needed because a better pill has been invented.) Standard: The security system has two levels of redundancy. Non-standard: Over-use of antibiotics risks making them redundant. (This should read: over-use of antibiotics risks making them ineffective)
Milestones in a product life cycle: general availability (GA), end of life announcement (EOLA), last order date (LOD), and end-of-life (EOL) An end-of-life product (EOL product) is a product at the end of the product lifecycle, which prevents users from receiving updates, indicating that the product is at the end of its useful life (from the vendor's point of view).
There are no true guarantees in life when it comes to your career, business, and know-how. ... People Shared What 30 Skills They Acquired That Are No Longer Needed. Shelly Fourer. October 31, 2024 ...
No more Pluto, no more shop — cursive and driver's ed have seen a drop. In addition to those changes, many other lessons kids used to learn in school are no longer taught. Discover how the ...
The company that used to maintain it went bankrupt or ceased to exist for a variety of reasons, and no other company is going to maintain it (even if it was not officially discontinued) Abandonware; Software not to include in this category: Video games, because most video games would otherwise meet the definition above after a short period of time
[clarification needed] An example from paleontology is the previously deprecated term Brontosaurus: before being recognized once again as a unique genus, [11] it was considered a popular, yet deprecated, name for the genus Apatosaurus. [12] Some deprecated terms in medicine are consumption (tuberculosis), grippe , and apoplexy .
An unpaired word is one that, according to the usual rules of the language, would appear to have a related word but does not. [1] Such words usually have a prefix or suffix that would imply that there is an antonym , with the prefix or suffix being absent or opposite.