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System software is software designed to provide a platform for other software. Examples of system software include operating systems (OS) (like macOS,...

Thomas Otten Paine (November 9, 1921 – May 4, 1992) was an American engineer, scientist and advocate of space exploration, and was the third Administrator...

The Space Test Program (STP) is the primary provider of spaceflight for the United States Department of Defense (DoD) space science and technology community...

Scope creep (also called requirement creep, or kitchen sink syndrome) in project management is continuous or uncontrolled growth in a project's scope,...

A visitor pattern is a software design pattern that separates the algorithm from the object structure. Because of this separation, new operations can be...

The Heckler & Koch P7 is a German 9×19mm semi-automatic pistol designed by Helmut Weldle and produced from 1979 to 2008 by Heckler & Koch GmbH (H&K). The...

The W3C Geolocation API is an effort by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to standardize an interface to retrieve the geographical location information...

An independent power producer (IPP) or non-utility generator (NUG) is an entity that is not a public utility but owns facilities to generate electric power...

Fretting refers to wear and sometimes corrosion damage of loaded surfaces in contact while they encounter small oscillatory movements tangential to the...

The Smith & Wesson M76 submachine gun (SMG) was produced by Smith & Wesson from 1967 to 1974. The history of the Model 76 submachine gun started in April...

The DSR-Precision DSR-50 is a bullpup bolt-action anti-materiel rifle developed and manufactured by DSR-Precision GmbH and chambered in .50 BMG. It is...

Diagonal pliers (also known as wire cutters or diagonal cutting pliers, or under many regional names) are pliers intended for the cutting of wire (they...

CT2 is a cordless telephony standard that was used in the early 1990s to provide short-range proto-mobile phone service in some countries in Europe and...

Production planning is the planning of production and manufacturing modules in a company or industry. It utilizes the resource allocation of activities...

.frl is the Internet top-level domain for Friesland. frl domain names are issued by FRLregistry B.V., which is responsible for the top-level domain '.frl'...

The Sony Xperia PRO-I is an Android smartphone manufactured by Sony. Designed to be the new professional flagship of Sony's Xperia series, the phone was...

The Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 is a mid-range Android tablet computer designed by Samsung Electronics. There are two variants: Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 (2020)...

In engineering, draft is the amount of taper for molded or cast parts perpendicular to the parting line. It can be measured in degrees or mm/mm (in/in)...

TCP reset attack, also known as a forged TCP reset or spoofed TCP reset, is a way to terminate a TCP connection by sending a forged TCP reset packet. This...

The alkaline fuel cell (AFC), also known as the Bacon fuel cell after its British inventor, Francis Thomas Bacon, is one of the most developed fuel cell...