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  2. Silver Swan (automaton) - Wikipedia

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    The swan, which is life-sized, is a clockwork-driven device that includes a music box. The swan sits in a "stream" made of glass rods and surrounded by silver leaves. Small silver fish can be seen "swimming" in the stream. [2] A small silver fish may just be seen in the foreground

  3. List of discontinued x86 instructions - Wikipedia

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    While capable of encoding values from 8 to 31 (values 0 to 7 map to ModR/M-encoded variants of the older POP instruction, making them unusable for XOP), only maps 8, 9 and 0Ah were ever used: map 8 for instructions that take an 8-bit immediate, map 9 for instructions that don't take an immediate, and map 0Ah for instructions that take a 32-bit ...

  4. MM2 - Wikipedia

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    MM2 may refer to: MM2, a class of force fields; see force field (chemistry) MM2 (MMS), an interface utilized by the Multimedia Messaging Service standard; Mega Man 2, a 1988 video game for the NES; Mega Man II, a 1991 video game for the Game Boy; Midtown Madness 2, a 2000 video game for the PC; Motocross Madness 2, a 2000 video game for the PC

  5. Vector clock - Wikipedia

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    A vector clock of a system of N processes is an array/vector of N logical clocks, one clock per process; a local "largest possible values" copy of the global clock-array is kept in each process. Denote V C i {\displaystyle VC_{i}} as the vector clock maintained by process i {\displaystyle i} , the clock updates proceed as follows: [ 1 ]

  6. Mechanical calculator - Wikipedia

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    Schickard, Pascal and Leibniz were inevitably inspired by the role of clockwork which was highly celebrated in the seventeenth century. [29] However, simple-minded application of interlinked gears was insufficient for any of their purposes. Schickard introduced the use of a single toothed "mutilated gear" to enable the carry to take place.

  7. Movement (clockwork) - Wikipedia

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    The term originated with mechanical timepieces, whose clockwork movements are made of many moving parts. The movement of a digital watch is more commonly known as a module . In modern mass-produced clocks and watches, the same movement is often inserted into many different styles of case.

  8. Metronome - Wikipedia

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    Instead of a clockwork or a quartz crystal, a plug-in electric motor operates the mechanism. Most use a mechanical variable-speed drive combination with a momentary switch and a cam wheel to time the beats. A frequent feature is an embedded neon lamp that flashes in time with the beat. Franz and Yamaha were common manufacturers in the 1960s and ...

  9. M squared - Wikipedia

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    M 2 is useful because it reflects how well a collimated laser beam can be focused to a small spot, or how well a divergent laser source can be collimated. It is a better guide to beam quality than Gaussian appearance because there are many cases in which a beam can look Gaussian, yet have an M 2 value far from unity. [1]