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- Incest (/ˈɪnsɛst/ IN-sest) is human sexual activity between family members or close relatives. This typically includes sexual activity between people in...105 KB (12,413 words) - 15:50, 6 July 2024
- The decibel (symbol: dB) is a relative unit of measurement equal to one tenth of a bel (B). It expresses the ratio of two values of a power or root-power...75 KB (9,095 words) - 18:18, 10 May 2024
- A CPU cache is a hardware cache used by the central processing unit (CPU) of a computer to reduce the average cost (time or energy) to access data from...96 KB (13,277 words) - 09:33, 9 June 2024
- The Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) is a carnivorous plant native to the temperate and subtropical wetlands of North Carolina and South Carolina, on...62 KB (6,947 words) - 17:23, 21 June 2024
- The Eagle Nebula (catalogued as Messier 16 or M16, and as NGC 6611, and also known as the Star Queen Nebula) is a young open cluster of stars in the constellation...13 KB (1,271 words) - 04:10, 20 February 2024
- Gray's Anatomy is a reference book of human anatomy written by Henry Gray, illustrated by Henry Vandyke Carter and first published in London in 1858. It...25 KB (2,736 words) - 11:12, 23 June 2024
- The Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner (previously the Swearingen Metro and later Fairchild Aerospace Metro) is a 19-seat, pressurized, twin-turboprop airliner...46 KB (5,353 words) - 01:45, 8 July 2024
- The terms Google bombing and Googlewashing refer to the practice of causing a website to rank highly in web search engine results for irrelevant, unrelated...46 KB (4,887 words) - 06:47, 26 June 2024
- A bridle is a piece of equipment used to direct a horse. As defined in the Oxford English Dictionary, the "bridle" includes both the headstall that holds...21 KB (3,108 words) - 02:46, 7 June 2024
- Cetacean stranding, commonly known as beaching, is a phenomenon in which whales and dolphins strand themselves on land, usually on a beach. Beached whales...39 KB (3,952 words) - 20:03, 8 July 2024
- Software configuration management (SCM), a.k.a. software change and configuration management (SCCM), is the software engineering practice of tracking and...6 KB (838 words) - 09:01, 9 June 2024
- The insular cortex (also insula and insular lobe) is a portion of the cerebral cortex folded deep within the lateral sulcus (the fissure separating the...63 KB (7,555 words) - 00:02, 5 June 2024
- The VIC-20 (known as the VC-20 in Germany and the VIC-1001 in Japan) is an 8-bit home computer that was sold by Commodore Business Machines. The VIC-20...38 KB (4,346 words) - 18:11, 24 June 2024
- A patent medicine (sometimes called a proprietary medicine) is a non-prescription medicine or medicinal preparation that is typically protected and advertised...38 KB (4,451 words) - 16:38, 27 May 2024
- According to Latter Day Saint belief, the golden plates (also called the gold plates or in some 19th-century literature, the golden bible) are the source...135 KB (17,208 words) - 00:16, 6 July 2024
- A scramjet (supersonic combustion ramjet) is a variant of a ramjet airbreathing jet engine in which combustion takes place in supersonic airflow. As in...70 KB (8,233 words) - 17:35, 14 June 2024
- Kaempferia galanga, commonly known as kencur, aromatic ginger, sand ginger, cutcherry, is a monocotyledonous plant in the ginger family, and one of four...14 KB (1,165 words) - 23:08, 4 March 2024
- The Shared Source Initiative (SSI) is a source-available software licensing scheme launched by Microsoft in May 2001. The program includes a spectrum of...12 KB (1,309 words) - 16:43, 5 July 2024
- Together, legal psychology and forensic psychology form the field more generally recognized as "psychology and law". Following earlier efforts by psychologists...12 KB (1,559 words) - 12:05, 27 September 2023
- Pigeon racing is the sport of releasing specially trained homing pigeons, which then return to their homes over a carefully measured distance. The time...44 KB (5,189 words) - 14:56, 9 July 2024