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  2. Patiria miniata - Wikipedia

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    Patiria miniata, the bat star, sea bat, webbed star, or broad-disk star, is a species of sea star (also called a starfish) in the family Asterinidae. It typically has five arms, with the center disk of the animal being much wider than the stubby arms are in length. [2] Although the bat star usually has five arms, it sometimes has as many as ...

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  4. Common pipistrelle - Wikipedia

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    Its species name "pipistrellus" is derived from the Italian word pipistrello, which means "bat." The soprano pipistrelle, Pipistrellus pygmaeus, was formerly considered synonymous with the common pipistrelle. In 1999, [7] it was formally split from the common pipistrelle based on differing echolocation signatures and a genetic divergence of 11% ...

  5. Millwall brick - Wikipedia

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    A Millwall brick or bat is an improvised weapon made of a manipulated newspaper, used as a small club. It was named after supporters of Millwall F.C., who have a reputation for football hooliganism. The Millwall brick was allegedly used as a stealth weapon at football matches in England during the 1960s and 1970s. The weapon's popularity ...

  6. Bat flight - Wikipedia

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    A bat wing, which is a highly modified forelimb. Bats are the only mammal capable of true flight. Bats use flight for capturing prey, breeding, avoiding predators, and long-distance migration. Bat wing morphology is often highly specialized to the needs of the species. This image is displaying the anatomical makeup of a specific bat wing.

  7. Paper machine - Wikipedia

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    Paper machines usually have at least five distinct operational sections: Forming section, commonly called the wet end, is a continuous rotating wire mesh which removes water from the paper by sucking it out of suspension via vacuum.

  8. glob (programming) - Wikipedia

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    A screenshot of the original 1971 Unix reference page for glob – the owner is dmr, short for Dennis Ritchie.. glob() (/ ɡ l ɒ b /) is a libc function for globbing, which is the archetypal use of pattern matching against the names in a filesystem directory such that a name pattern is expanded into a list of names matching that pattern.

  9. Batch processing - Wikipedia

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    A batch window is "a period of less-intensive online activity", [11] when the computer system is able to run batch jobs without interference from, or with, interactive online systems. A bank's end-of-day (EOD) jobs require the concept of cutover , where transaction and data are cut off for a particular day's batch activity ("deposits after 3 PM ...