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    individual or a group might be looking for, but it is only meant to lure them. Decoys have been used for centuries most notably in game hunting, but also...
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  • Look up decoy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A decoy is a person, device, or event meant to distract. Decoy or Decoys may also refer to: Decoy (1934...
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  • The Decoy is the name of a number of films: The Decoy (1914 film) The Decoy (1915 film) The Decoy (1916 film) The Decoy (1918 film) The Decoy (2006 film)...
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    radar or infrared decoys from naval vessels to foil incoming anti-ship missiles. The decoys present false signals and interference to the attacking missiles'...
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  • been named HMS Decoy. HMS Decoy (1810), the name vessel for her three-vessel class of cutter; the French captured her in 1814 HMS Decoy (1856), a Cheerful-class...
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  • Decoy is a 1984 album by jazz musician Miles Davis, recorded in 1983. Keyboardist Robert Irving III and guitarist John Scofield wrote or co-wrote most...
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    Decoy cells are virally infected epithelial cells that can be found in the urine. Decoy cells owe their name to their strong resemblance to cancer cells...
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    A sonar decoy is a device for decoying sonar. Most are released from submarines to act as a false target. The first submarine decoys were the German Bold...
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    decoy flare is an aerial infrared countermeasure used by an aircraft to counter an infrared homing ("heat-seeking") surface-to-air missile or air-to-air...
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  • The Decoy Bride is a 2011 British romantic comedy film written by comedian Sally Phillips and Neil Jaworski, and starring Kelly Macdonald, David Tennant...
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    Decoy (also titled Policewoman Decoy) is an American crime drama television series created for syndication and initially broadcast from October 14, 1957...
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    A decoy receptor is a receptor that is able to recognize and bind specific growth factors or cytokines efficiently, but is not structurally able to signal...
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  • piece is decoyed to a particular square via the sacrifice of a piece on that square. A piece so sacrificed is called a decoy. When the piece decoyed or deflected...
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    In marketing, the decoy effect (or attraction effect or asymmetric dominance effect) is the phenomenon whereby consumers will tend to have a specific change...
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  • Within quantum cryptography, the Decoy state quantum key distribution (QKD) protocol is the most widely implemented QKD scheme. Practical QKD systems...
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    Bold (also called Bolde, a term derived from kobold) was a German sonar decoy, used by U-boats during the Second World War from 1942 onwards. It consisted...
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  • A political decoy is a person employed to impersonate a politician, to draw attention away from the real person or to take risks on that person's behalf...
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    Major parties used decoy lists to neutralize compensation. Though all list seats are compensatory since 2024, but widespread use of decoy lists is expected...
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    Nulka decoy system at the Pacific Missile Range (SoCal OPAREA), circa 2009 Nulka is an Australian-designed and -developed active missile decoy built by...
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  • Decoys is a 2004 Canadian science fiction horror film directed by Matthew Hastings and written by Tom Berry and Hastings. The cast included Kim Poirier...
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