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  2. Beep, beep (sound) - Wikipedia

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    Beep, beep" is onomatopoeia representing a noise, generally of a pair of identical tones following one after the other, often generated by a machine or device such as a car horn. It is commonly associated with the Road Runner (commonly interpreted as "meep meep") in Looney Tunes cartoons featuring the speedy-yet- flightless bird and his ...

  3. Beep (sound) - Wikipedia

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    A beep is a short, single tone, typically high-pitched, generally made by a computer or other machine. The term has its origin in onomatopoeia . The word "beep-beep" is recorded for the noise of a car horn in 1929, and the modern usage of "beep" for a high-pitched tone is attributed to Arthur C. Clarke in 1951.

  4. Bleep censor - Wikipedia

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    This was already the case on March 27, 2022, when American television broadcasters muted the sound during a live broadcast of the Oscars after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock and shouted, "Keep my wife's name out your fucking mouth!", [8] to which Rock responded, "Will Smith just smacked the shit out of me.". Nevertheless, the complete verbal ...

  5. Buzzer - Wikipedia

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    Sounds commonly used to indicate that a button has been pressed are a click, a ring or a beep. Interior of a readymade loudspeaker, showing a piezoelectric-disk-beeper (With 3 electrodes ... including 1 feedback-electrode ( the central, small electrode joined with red wire in this photo), and an oscillator to self-drive the buzzer.

  6. Quindar tones - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, those transmissions would consist of a "beep" (PTT press) followed by Houston talking, then another "beep" (PTT release) and finally the voice of the astronauts. Another misconception about Quindar tones is that they were designed to signal the end of a transmission, similar to a courtesy tone used on many half-duplex radio repeaters .

  7. Beep, beep - Wikipedia

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    Beep, beep may refer to: Beep, beep (sound), an onomatopoeia representing a noise; Beep, Beep, a 1952 cartoon starring Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner; Music

  8. Scrolling - Wikipedia

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    Scrolling can be controlled in other software-dependent ways by a PC mouse. Some scroll wheels can be pressed down, functioning like a button. Depending on the software, this allows both horizontal and vertical scrolling by dragging in the direction desired; when the mouse is moved to the original position, scrolling stops.

  9. List of Google Easter eggs - Wikipedia

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    On YouTube for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and on YouTube TV, holding rewind (left on a gamepad thumbstick, left ← or J on a keyboard) for a few seconds while at the beginning of a video, will cause an animated image of a small dog to run across the video's progress bar. This easter egg is no longer available.