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    Signals intelligence (SIGINT) is the act and field of intelligence-gathering by interception of signals, whether communications between people (communications...
    54 KB (6,795 words) - 05:37, 4 March 2024
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    any extraterrestrial civilization attempting to communicate via radio signals might do so using a frequency of 1420 megahertz (21-centimeter spectral...
    32 KB (3,303 words) - 15:48, 25 May 2024
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    strategy. Signals are given in contexts such as mate selection by females, which subjects the advertising males' signals to selective pressure. Signals thus...
    80 KB (9,583 words) - 05:08, 25 May 2024
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    three signals are yet considered to be fully operational for civilian use. In addition to the four aforementioned signals, there are restricted signals with...
    75 KB (10,657 words) - 17:08, 16 May 2024
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    offense by giving signals to the players using a multicoloured fan. The defensive team play is directed by the manager's orders and hand signals by the fielders...
    20 KB (2,890 words) - 09:05, 13 April 2024
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    of way. T signal (trams) in Hong Kong Bus and tram signals in Karlsruhe, Germany Some regions have signals that are interruptible, giving priority to...
    97 KB (10,632 words) - 23:36, 24 May 2024
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    as a signaling instrument. It was used to give signals to the entire unit. The military writer Vegetius described the use of horns to give signals: The...
    14 KB (1,453 words) - 14:29, 16 May 2024
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    o'clock) signals joy, such as the birth of a healthy baby. A tilt of the blades to 11-2-5-8 o'clock signals mourning, or warning. It was used to signal the...
    46 KB (5,475 words) - 00:47, 16 May 2024
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    (which is white and has a green border) to give the ready signal to the train driver. After sunset they give signals with flashlights. Train drivers are not...
    38 KB (5,229 words) - 05:33, 19 April 2024
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    The railway signalling system used across the majority of the United Kingdom rail network uses lineside signals to control the movement and speed of trains...
    67 KB (8,992 words) - 04:22, 24 May 2024
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    millions of molecules. As with other signals, the transduction of biological signals is characterised by delay, noise, signal feedback and feedforward and interference...
    63 KB (7,624 words) - 03:29, 26 January 2024
  • help in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Help is a word meaning to give aid or signal distress. Help may refer to: Help (2010 film), a Bollywood horror...
    5 KB (568 words) - 15:11, 22 May 2024
  • The rainstorm warning signals are a set of signals used in Hong Kong to alert the public about the occurrence of heavy rain which is likely to bring about...
    9 KB (778 words) - 03:58, 12 February 2023
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    addition of distant signals on the approach to stop signals. The distant signal gave the driver warning that they were approaching a signal which might require...
    26 KB (3,180 words) - 18:06, 8 February 2024
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    mounted sentry or picket, who has the function of bringing information, giving signals or warnings of danger, etc., to a main body of troops. In modern terms...
    2 KB (269 words) - 04:16, 11 January 2024
  • Virtue signalling is a pejorative neologism for the idea that an expression of a moral viewpoint is being done disingenuously, with the intent of communicating...
    18 KB (1,981 words) - 16:40, 20 May 2024
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    was called the "absolute block system". Fixed mechanical signals began to replace hand signals from the 1830s. These were originally worked locally, but...
    45 KB (5,957 words) - 18:29, 20 May 2024
  • notify it of an event. Common uses of signals are to interrupt, suspend, terminate or kill a process. Signals originated in 1970s Bell Labs Unix and...
    31 KB (3,469 words) - 06:43, 3 April 2024
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    distance of 2 metres would provide a gravity gradient signal approximately one E. Mountains can give signals of several hundred Eotvos. Full tensor gradiometers...
    12 KB (1,368 words) - 10:50, 14 April 2024
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    Yield sign (redirect from Give way)
    by the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals as the international standard. In Australia, the Give Way sign evolved similarly to its counterpart...
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