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  2. Sunset provision - Wikipedia

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    Sunset provisions have been used extensively throughout legal history. [2] The idea of general sunset provisions was discussed extensively in the late 1970s. [3] Sunset clauses with an effective extension review process have been argued as a safeguard of democracy to ensure emergency provisions, such as state of emergency, remain temporary. [4]

  3. Meteorological instrumentation - Wikipedia

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    A weather station is a facility with instruments and equipment to make observations of atmospheric conditions in order to provide information to make weather forecasts and to study the weather and climate. The measurements taken include temperature, barometric pressure, humidity, wind speed, wind direction, and precipitation amounts.

  4. Sunset - Wikipedia

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    Actual sunset: Two minutes before the Sun disappears below the horizon. Sunset (or sundown) is the disappearance of the Sun at the end of the Sun path, below the horizon of the Earth (or any other astronomical object in the Solar System) due to its rotation.

  5. Quizlet - Wikipedia

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    [6] [7] [8] Quizlet's blog, written mostly by Andrew in the earlier days of the company, claims it had reached 50,000 registered users in 252 days online. [9] In the following two years, Quizlet reached its 1,000,000th registered user. [10] Until 2011, Quizlet shared staff and financial resources with the Collectors Weekly website. [11]

  6. Alidade - Wikipedia

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    A simple alidade for use with a ceiling projector. An alidade (/ ˈ æ. l ɪ. d eɪ d /) (archaic forms include alhidade, alhidad, alidad) [citation needed] or a turning board is a device that allows one to sight a distant object and use the line of sight to perform a task.

  7. Broken consort - Wikipedia

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    Though historically the term only came into use in the late seventeenth century and with reference only to English music, some more recent writers have applied the term retrospectively to music of earlier periods and of different nationalities, and—through a confounding of the terms "broken music" with "broken consort"—more specifically to a six-part instrumentation popular in England from ...

  8. Sunset (computing) - Wikipedia

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    After sunsetting is announced, usually very few changes are made to the hardware or software in question, as such work would be counterproductive, when its termination is soon to follow. In some cases, however, individual features of an application, server, or service may be phased out at different times, leading up to the eventual full shutdown.

  9. Gemshorn - Wikipedia

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    The gemshorn is an instrument of the ocarina family that was historically made from the horn of a chamois, goat, or other suitable animal. [1] The gemshorn receives its name from the German language, in which Gemshorn means a "chamois horn". [2]