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  2. Endianness - Wikipedia

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    Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, the novel from which the term was coined. In computing, endianness is the order in which bytes within a word of digital data are transmitted over a data communication medium or addressed (by rising addresses) in computer memory, counting only byte significance compared to earliness.

  3. List of academic awards - Wikipedia

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    Individual who has made a significant contribution to Canadian psychology as a scientific discipline (as a researcher, teacher, theorist, spokesperson, or public policy developer) Canada: Dufferin Medal: Lord Dufferin: Canadian students and athletes who had achieved high excellence in academics and athletics Canada: Fred P. Lossing Award

  4. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch - Wikipedia

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    In some types of writing, repeated use of said is considered tedious, and writers are encouraged to employ synonyms. On Wikipedia, it is more important to avoid language that makes undue implications. Said, stated, described, wrote, commented, and according to are almost always neutral and accurate. Extra care is needed with more loaded terms.

  5. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    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, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.

  6. The most important word in Thanksgiving for many: Giving - AOL

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    The most important word in Thanksgiving for many: Giving. Gannett. Sue Scheible, The Patriot Ledger. November 27, 2024 at 3:28 PM.

  7. Relevance - Wikipedia

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    Relevance is the connection between topics that makes one useful for dealing with the other. Relevance is studied in many different fields, including cognitive science, logic, and library and information science.

  8. Neologism - Wikipedia

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    The most precise studies into language change and word formation, in fact, identify the process of a "neological continuum": a nonce word is any single-use term that may or may not grow in popularity; a protologism is such a term used exclusively within a small group; a prelogism is such a term that is gaining usage but still not mainstream ...

  9. Significant figures - Wikipedia

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    0.00034 has 2 significant figures (3 and 4) if the resolution is 0.00001. Zeros to the right of the last non-zero digit (trailing zeros) in a number with the decimal point are significant if they are within the measurement or reporting resolution. 1.200 has four significant figures (1, 2, 0, and 0) if they are allowed by the measurement resolution.