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  2. Glossary of computer science - Wikipedia

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    Also simply application or app. Computer software designed to perform a group of coordinated functions, tasks, or activities for the benefit of the user. Common examples of applications include word processors, spreadsheets, accounting applications, web browsers, media players, aeronautical flight simulators, console games, and photo editors. This contrasts with system software, which is ...

  3. PVA - Wikipedia

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    Paraventricular nucleus of hypothalamus, a part of the brain; Patterned vertical alignment, a thin-film-transistor liquid-crystal display technology; Poikiloderma vasculare atrophicans, a skin disease

  4. Population viability analysis - Wikipedia

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    Population viability analysis (PVA) is a species-specific method of risk assessment frequently used in conservation biology. It is traditionally defined as the process that determines the probability that a population will go extinct within a given number of years.

  5. List of computing and IT abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    3NF—Third Normal Form; 386—Intel 80386 processor; 486—Intel 80486 processor; 4B5BLF—4-bit 5-bit Local Fiber; 4GL—Fourth-Generation Programming Language; 4NF—Fourth Normal Form; 5GL—Fifth-Generation Programming Language; 5NF—Fifth Normal Form; 6NF—Sixth Normal Form; 8B10BLF—8-bit 10-bit Local Fiber; 802.11—Wireless LAN

  6. IPS panel - Wikipedia

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    In the mid-1990s new technologies were developed—typically IPS and vertical alignment (VA)—that could resolve these weaknesses and were applied to large computer monitor panels. One approach patented in 1974 was to use inter-digitated electrodes on one glass substrate only to produce an electric field essentially parallel to the glass ...

  7. List of computer term etymologies - Wikipedia

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    Names of many computer terms, especially computer applications, often relate to the function they perform, e.g., a compiler is an application that compiles (programming language source code into the computer's machine language). However, there are other terms with less obvious origins, which are of etymological interest. This article lists such ...

  8. Polyvinyl acetate - Wikipedia

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    The degree of polymerization of polyvinyl acetate is typically 100 to 5000, while its ester groups are sensitive to base hydrolysis and slowly convert PVAc into polyvinyl alcohol and acetic acid.

  9. P versus NP problem - Wikipedia

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    Space is limited and only one hundred of the students will receive places in the dormitory. To complicate matters, the Dean has provided you with a list of pairs of incompatible students, and requested that no pair from this list appear in your final choice. This is an example of what computer scientists call an NP-problem...