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  2. Countershading - Wikipedia

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    Thayer's 1902 patent application. He failed to convince the US Navy. The English zoologist Edward Bagnall Poulton, author of The Colours of Animals (1890) discovered the countershading of various insects, including the pupa or chrysalis of the purple emperor butterfly, Apatura iris, [2] the caterpillar larvae of the brimstone moth, Opisthograptis luteolata [a] and of the peppered moth, Biston ...

  3. Lampshade spider - Wikipedia

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    Hypochilus web in its normal orientation. Lampshade spiders, family Hypochilidae, are among the most primitive of araneomorph spiders.There are two genera and twelve species currently recognized.

  4. Tint, shade and tone - Wikipedia

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    Some tints and shades of blue. In color theory, a tint is a mixture of a color with white, which increases lightness, while a shade is a mixture with black, which increases darkness. Both processes affect the resulting color mixture's relative saturation. A tone is produced either by mixing a color with gray, or by both tinting and shading. [1]

  5. Diff-Quik - Wikipedia

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    Diff-Quik is a commercial Romanowsky stain variant used to rapidly stain and differentiate a variety of pathology specimens. It is most frequently used for blood films and cytopathological smears, including fine needle aspirates .

  6. QUIC - Wikipedia

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    QUIC was developed with HTTP in mind, and HTTP/3 was its first application. [35] [36] DNS-over-QUIC is an application of QUIC to name resolution, providing security for data transferred between resolvers similar to DNS-over-TLS. [37]

  7. Window blind - Wikipedia

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    Various window blind styles. A window blind is a type of window covering. [1] There are many different kinds of window blinds which use a variety of control systems. A typical window blind is made up of several long horizontal or vertical slats of various types of hard material, including wood, plastic or metal which are held together by cords that run through the blind slats.

  8. Fifty Shades (film series) - Wikipedia

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    Fifty Shades is a British-American film trilogy series based on the Fifty Shades trilogy by English author E. L. James.It is distributed by Universal Studios, and stars Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan as the lead roles Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey, respectively.

  9. List of tree species by shade tolerance - Wikipedia

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    A list of tree species, grouped generally by biogeographic realm and specifically by bioregions, and shade tolerance. Shade-tolerant species are species that are able to thrive in the shade, and in the presence of natural competition by other plants. Shade-intolerant species require full sunlight and little or no competition.