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  2. Glossary of project management - Wikipedia

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    Earned schedule (ES) is an extension to earned value management (EVM), which renames 2 traditional measures, to indicate clearly they are in units of currency or quantity, not time. Earned value management (EVM) is a project management technique for measuring project progress in an objective manner, with a combination of measuring scope ...

  3. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...

  4. Glossary of nautical terms (A–L) - Wikipedia

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    AAW An acronym for anti-aircraft warfare. aback (of a sail) Filled by the wind on the opposite side to the one normally used to move the vessel forward.On a square-rigged ship, any of the square sails can be braced round to be aback, the purpose of which may be to reduce speed (such as when a ship-of-the-line is keeping station with others), to heave to, or to assist moving the ship's head ...

  5. Glossary of North American railway terms - Wikipedia

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    So termed by the similar appearance of the model name to the word pooch: P30CH / POOCH. [193] Position light signal (Pennsylvania) Signals made by the Pennsylvania Railroad that make use of a circular disc with up to eight lights mounted in a circle, with one light in the center. The lights would line up in a straight line to give the indication.

  6. Glossary of motion picture terms - Wikipedia

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    The schedule crafted by the assistant director, using the director 's shot list. It is issued to the cast and crew of a film production to inform them of when and where they should report for a particular day of filming. [24] The production schedule is usually listed by call time, the time when people are expected to start work on a film set.

  7. Timetable (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    A timetable is a kind of schedule that sets out times at which specific events are intended to occur. It may also refer to: School timetable, a table for coordinating students, teachers, rooms, and other resources; Time horizon, a fixed point of time in the future at which point certain processes will be evaluated or assumed to end

  8. Glossary of rail transport terms - Wikipedia

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    Rail transport terms are a form of technical terminology applied to railways. Although many terms are uniform across different nations and companies, they are by no means universal, with differences often originating from parallel development of rail transport systems in different parts of the world, and in the national origins of the engineers and managers who built the inaugural rail ...

  9. Schedule (workplace) - Wikipedia

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    A schedule, often called a rota or a roster, is a list of employees, and associated information e.g. location, department, working times, responsibilities for a given time period e.g. week, month or sports season. A schedule is necessary for the day-to-day operation of many businesses e.g. retail store, manufacturing facility and some offices.