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  2. Vicinity (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Vicinity means local area or surroundings. Vicinity may also refer to: Vicinity Energy, the largest U.S.-based provider of district energy; Vicinity Motor Corp., a ...

  3. Glossary of geography terms (N–Z) - Wikipedia

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    Also narrow. A land or water passage that is confined or restricted by its narrow breadth, often a strait or a water gap. nation A stable community of people formed on the basis of a common geographic territory, language, economy, ethnicity, or psychological make-up as manifested in a common culture. national mapping agency A governmental agency which manages, produces, and publishes ...

  4. Foothills - Wikipedia

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    Foothills or piedmont are geographically defined as gradual increases in elevation at the base of a mountain range, higher hill range or an upland area. They are a transition zone between plains and low relief hills and the adjacent topographically higher mountains , hills, and uplands. [ 1 ]

  5. Surroundings - Wikipedia

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    Surroundings, or environs is an area around a given physical or geographical point or place.The exact definition depends on the field. Surroundings can also be used in geography (when it is more precisely known as vicinity, or vicinage) and mathematics, as well as philosophy, with the literal or metaphorically extended definition.

  6. Glossary of chemistry terms - Wikipedia

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    Also acid ionization constant or acidity constant. A quantitative measure of the strength of an acid in solution expressed as an equilibrium constant for a chemical dissociation reaction in the context of acid-base reactions. It is often given as its base-10 cologarithm, p K a. acid–base extraction A chemical reaction in which chemical species are separated from other acids and bases. acid ...

  7. Glossary of biology - Wikipedia

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    This glossary of biology terms is a list of definitions of fundamental terms and concepts used in biology, the study of life and of living organisms.It is intended as introductory material for novices; for more specific and technical definitions from sub-disciplines and related fields, see Glossary of cell biology, Glossary of genetics, Glossary of evolutionary biology, Glossary of ecology ...

  8. Neighbourhood (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    A set in the plane is a neighbourhood of a point if a small disc around is contained in . The small disc around is an open set .. In topology and related areas of mathematics, a neighbourhood (or neighborhood) is one of the basic concepts in a topological space.

  9. List of geographic acronyms and initialisms - Wikipedia

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    Gerbangkertosusila — official acronym for the Surabaya Extended Metropolitan Area in East Java, Indonesia: GREsik BANGkalan MojoKERTO SUrabaya SIdoarjo LAmongan; Jabodetabek — the capital of Indonesia and suburbs: JAkarta, BOgor, DEpok, TAngerang and BEKasi; MM — Metro Manila, a metropolitan area and seat of government of the Philippines