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  2. Diya (lamp) - Wikipedia

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    Symmetrical Diwali diyas Women selling Bamboo diyas near Bhadrachalam A diya lamp with swastika engraved interior. A diya, diyo, deya, [1] deeya, dia, divaa, deepa, deepam, deep, deepak or saaki (Sanskrit: दीपम्, romanized: Dīpam) is an oil lamp made from clay or mud with a cotton wick dipped in oil or ghee.

  3. Ceremonial use of lights - Wikipedia

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    A memorial candle is also lit on Yom HaShoah, a day of remembrance for all those murdered in The Holocaust. [46] A seven-day memorial candle is lit following the funeral of a spouse, parent, sibling or child. Candles are also lit prior to the onset of the Three Festivals (Sukkot, Passover and Shavuot) and the eve of Yom Kippur, and Rosh Hashana ...

  4. Word processor - Wikipedia

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    A word processor (WP) [1] [2] is a device or computer program that provides for input, editing, formatting, and output of text, often with some additional features.. Early word processors were stand-alone devices dedicated to the function, but current word processors are word processor programs running on general purpose computers.

  5. Hanukkah menorah - Wikipedia

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    Eight of the nine branches hold lights (candles or oil lamps) that symbolize the eight nights of the holiday; on each night, one more light is lit than the previous night, until on the final night all eight branches are ignited. The ninth branch holds a candle, called the shamash ("helper" or "servant"), which is used to light the other eight.

  6. Arti (Hinduism) - Wikipedia

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    Arti plate. Arti (Hindi: आरती, romanized: Āratī) or Aarati (Sanskrit: आरात्रिक, romanized: Ārātrika) [1] [2] is a Hindu ritual employed in worship, part of a puja, in which light from a flame (fuelled by camphor, ghee, or oil) is ritually waved to venerate deities.

  7. Visual Word - Wikipedia

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    Consider that the pixels of an image, which are the smallest parts of a digital image and cannot be divided into smaller ones, are like the letters of an alphabetical language. Then, a set of pixels in an image (a patch or arrays of pixels) is a word. Each word can then be reprocessed into a morphological system to extract a term related to ...

  8. Candle (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Candle (unit), old unit of luminous intensity, now replaced by the SI unit candela; Advent candle; Candle clock; Candling, method of observing the growth of an embryo inside an egg, using a bright light source; An entry on a candle chart or candlestick chart, used for plotting stock market prices

  9. Candelabra - Wikipedia

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    The word is originally Latin, where candēlābrum (candela, candle, -b(a) rum, holder) means a "candlestick”, ultimately deriving from candēla, meaning "candle". Candalabrum is the singular form and candēlābra is the plural. [6] While candelabra is the correct plural form of candelabrum, due to changes in English usage over time ...