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  2. Balance spring - Wikipedia

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    The watch is accelerated by shortening the arc. This is not a balance spring regulator, being used in the earliest watches before the balance spring was invented. There is also a Barrow regulator, but this is really the earlier of the two principal methods of giving the mainspring "set-up tension"; that required to keep the fusée chain in ...

  3. Watch strap - Wikipedia

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    A leather watch strap with a butterfly closure Four analog wristwatches for men with variants of the widespread metal watch strap made from stainless steel, the two in the middle being of the most common type. A watch strap, watch band, watch bracelet or watch belt is a bracelet that straps a wrist watch onto the wrist. [1]

  4. Clipping (morphology) - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, clipping, also called truncation or shortening, [1] is word formation by removing some segments of an existing word to create a diminutive word or a clipped compound. Clipping differs from abbreviation , which is based on a shortening of the written, rather than the spoken, form of an existing word or phrase.

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  6. Operations manual - Wikipedia

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    The operations manual is the documentation by which an organisation provides guidance for members and employees to perform their functions correctly and reasonably efficiently. [1] It documents the approved standard procedures for performing operations safely to produce goods and provide services. [ 2 ]

  7. Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 115 - Wikipedia

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    Maybe the style guide would be good as a book. Maurreen 08:06, 2 April 2010 (UTC) Why? It's online. Tony (talk) 00:19, 3 April 2010 (UTC) One does not preclude the other. We simply use the book tool to add all of MoSes to a book. All can then be more easily downloaded as a unit--Jubilee ♫ clipman 01:23, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

  8. Three-letter acronym - Wikipedia

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    Out of the 17,576 possible TLAs that can be created using 3 uppercase letters, at least 94% of them had been used at least once in a dataset of 18 million scientific article abstracts. Three-letter acronyms are the most common type of acronym in scientific research papers, with acronyms of length 3 being twice as common as those of length 2 or 4.

  9. Real Sex - Wikipedia

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    Real Sex is a documentary television series broadcast on and a production of HBO. [1] As its name implies, Real Sex is a sexually explicit "magazine" which "explores sex '90s style." [ 2 ] [ 3 ]