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  2. Ellipsis (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, ellipsis (from Ancient Greek ἔλλειψις (élleipsis) 'omission') or an elliptical construction is the omission from a clause of one or more words that are nevertheless understood in the context of the remaining elements. There are numerous distinct types of ellipsis acknowledged in theoretical syntax.

  3. Engineering, procurement, and construction - Wikipedia

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    The EPC contractor coordinates all design, procurement and construction work and ensures that the whole project is completed as required and in time. They may or may not undertake actual site work. EPC companies are often used in large-scale projects, such as power plants, refineries, chemical processing facilities, infrastructure projects, and ...

  4. Talk:Ellipsis - Wikipedia

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    Elliptical construction and Ellipsis (figure of speech) could be merged together. However, they don't really have any place in this article (I am referring to merge tags present in this revision ). This article appears to be mostly about the punctuation and the modern usage thereof, whereas the other two articles are about the grammatical ...

  5. Does an elliptical or treadmill give you a better workout ...

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    An elliptical doesn't require your body to bear any impact loads, he says, which makes it a much gentler option than a treadmill. When it comes to the lower body, both machines work generally the ...

  6. Ellipsograph - Wikipedia

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    The motion of the rod is termed elliptical motion. The semi-axes a and b of the ellipses have lengths equal to the distances from the point on the rod to each of the two pivots. The straight lines described by the pivots are special cases of an ellipse, where the length of one axis is twice the distance between the pivots and that of the other ...

  7. Verb phrase ellipsis - Wikipedia

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    Forward VPE in English. In linguistics, ' Verb phrase ellipsis ' (VP ellipsis or VPE) is a type of grammatical omission where a verb phrase is left out (elided) but its meaning can still be inferred from context.

  8. Maintenance engineering - Wikipedia

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    Maintenance Engineering is the discipline and profession of applying engineering concepts for the optimization of equipment, procedures, and departmental budgets to achieve better maintainability, reliability, and availability of equipment.

  9. AGIL paradigm - Wikipedia

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    The four functions of AGIL break into external and internal problems, and further into instrumental and consummatory problems. External problems include the use of natural resources and making decisions to achieve goals, whereas keeping the community integrated and maintaining the common values and practices over succeeding generations are considered internal problems.