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  2. Glossary of firefighting - Wikipedia

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    For a complete list of terms used in wildland fire, see Glossary of wildland fire terms. Wholetime firefighter: (U.K. and Ireland) A firefighter who is employed full-time. Working fire: A fire that is in the process of being suppressed. Typically reserved for a structure fire or an outside fire with a considerable fire load that requires the ...

  3. Timeline of the Space Race - Wikipedia

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    This list is limited to first achievements by the USSR and USA which were important during the Space Race in terms of public perception and/or technical innovation. This excludes first uses of specific on-board equipment and new scientific discoveries, or achievements by other countries.

  4. Common operational picture - Wikipedia

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    "Operational" refers to actual, preferably in real-time, status and developments (which rarely fit the plan generated days/hours/moments ago) and it also refers to being at the operational planning level which is a summation and summary of many tactical scales and not of the broader, strategic level. "Picture" refers to a single, combined ...

  5. List of Latin phrases (full) - Wikipedia

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    contradiction in terms: Something that would embody a contradiction with the very definition of one of its terms; for example, payment for a gift, or a circle with corners. The fallacy of proposing such a thing.

  6. Operational efficiency - Wikipedia

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    In a business context, operational efficiency is a measurement of resource allocation and can be defined as the ratio between an output gained from the business and an input to run a business operation. When improving operational efficiency, the output to input ratio improves.

  7. Military operation - Wikipedia

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    The operational level of war occupies roughly the middle ground between the campaign's strategic focus and the tactics of an engagement. It describes "a distinct intermediate level of war between military strategy , governing war in general, and tactics, involving individual battles". [ 2 ]

  8. Operational level of war - Wikipedia

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    Operational art is defined by its military-political scope, not by force size, scale of operations or degree of effort. Likewise, operational art provides theory and skills, and the operational level permits doctrinal structure and process. [3] The operational level of war is concerned with four essential elements: time, space, means, and purpose.

  9. Generic top-level domain - Wikipedia

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    pro became a gTLD in May 2002, but did not become fully operational until June 2004. ICANN added further TLDs, starting with a set of sponsored top-level domains. The application period for these was from December 15, 2003, to March 16, 2004; it resulted in ten applications. [5] Of these, ICANN approved asia, cat, jobs, mobi, tel and travel.