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Cut, copy, and paste are essential commands of modern human–computer interaction and user interface design. They offer an interprocess communication technique...

Shadow Copy (also known as Volume Snapshot Service, Volume Shadow Copy Service or VSS) is a technology included in Microsoft Windows that can create backup...

(Creating original content to be published under another person's name is called "ghostwriting".) Furthermore, copy editors are expected to query structural and...

original to copy when copies are made. This deterioration accumulates with each generation. With digital forms of information, copying is perfect. Copy and paste...

photographic copiers, a carbon copy was the under-copy of a typed or written document placed over carbon paper and the under-copy sheet itself (not to be confused...

object copying is the act of creating and initializing a new object based on an existing object's state. The various ways to implement copy have implications...

Copy number variation (CNV) is a phenomenon in which sections of the genome are repeated and the number of repeats in the genome varies between individuals...

copying is a file operation that creates a new file which has the same content as an existing file. Computer operating systems include file copying methods...

computing, copy is a command in various operating systems. The command copies computer files from one directory to another. Generally, the command copies files...

"Zero-copy" describes computer operations in which the CPU does not perform the task of copying data from one memory area to another or in which unnecessary...

copying can be eliminated even if this would alter the program's behavior, the most common being the return value optimization (see below). Another widely...

Copy protection, also known as content protection, copy prevention and copy restriction, describes measures to enforce copyright by preventing the reproduction...

premise that while the latter is a conscious, typically overt effort to copy another person, mirroring is unconsciously done during the act and often goes...

"Copy of a" is a song by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released as the second single from their eighth studio album, Hesitation Marks...

Copy-on-write (COW), sometimes referred to as implicit sharing or shadowing, is a resource-management technique used in computer programming to efficiently...

A copy boy is a typically young and junior worker on a newspaper. The job involves taking typed stories from one section of a newspaper to another. According...

Cut Copy (sometimes stylised as Cut/Copy) are an Australian synth-pop band formed in 2001 by Dan Whitford (vocals, keyboards and guitar). Originally a...

presentation copy is a copy of a book that has been presented, usually by the author or someone associated with the book's production, to another individual...

loanword, from the French noun calque ("tracing, imitation, close copy"). Another example of a common morpheme-by-morpheme loan-translation is of the...

Mate-choice copying, or non-independent mate choice, occurs when a female of an animal species copies another fellow female's mate choice. In other words...