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  2. Multimeter - Wikipedia

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    Analog multimeter Digital multimeter. A multimeter (also known as a volt-ohm-milliammeter, volt-ohmmeter or VOM) [1] is a measuring instrument that can measure multiple electrical properties. [2] [3] A typical multimeter can measure voltage, resistance, and current, [4] in which case can be used as a voltmeter, ohmmeter, and ammeter.

  3. Atlantic Seaboard Fall Line - Wikipedia

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    Examples of Fall Zone features include the Potomac River's Little Falls and the rapids in Richmond, Virginia, where the James River falls across a series of rapids down to its own tidal estuary. Before navigation improvements, such as locks, the fall line was generally the head of navigation on rivers due to their rapids or waterfalls, and the ...

  4. List of measuring instruments - Wikipedia

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    For example: A glowing coal has a different thermal quality than a non-glowing one. And a substance-like property, — the entropy; for example: One glowing coal won't heat a pot of water, but a hundred will.

  5. Nature photography - Wikipedia

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    National Geographic Pictures of the Year: As one of the most respected and well-known organizations for nature photography, National Geographic began its “Pictures of the Year” contest in 2023. It invites photographers, both amateur and professional, to submit photos to compete in one of four categories: nature, people, places, and animals.

  6. Fall line - Wikipedia

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    A fall line (or fall zone) is the area where an upland region and a coastal plain meet and is noticeable especially where rivers cross it, with resulting rapids or waterfalls. The uplands are relatively hard crystalline basement rock , and the coastal plain is softer sedimentary rock . [ 1 ]

  7. Landscape photography - Wikipedia

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    Landscape photography (often shortened to landscape photos) shows the spaces within the world, sometimes vast and unending, but other times microscopic. Landscape photographs typically capture the presence of nature but can also focus on human-made features or disturbances of landscapes.

  8. List of electrical and electronic measuring equipment

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    Multimeter: General purpose instrument measures voltage, current and resistance (and sometimes other quantities as well) Network analyzer: Measures network parameters Ohmmeter: Measures the resistance of a component Oscilloscope: Displays waveform of a signal, allows measurement of frequency, timing, peak excursion, offset, ... Psophometer

  9. Coastline paradox - Wikipedia

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    Shortly before 1951, Lewis Fry Richardson, in researching the possible effect of border lengths on the probability of war, noticed that the Portuguese reported their measured border with Spain to be 987 km (613 mi), but the Spanish reported it as 1,214 km (754 mi). This was the beginning of the coastline problem, which is a mathematical ...