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  2. General-purpose - Wikipedia

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    General-purpose may refer to: General-purpose technology; General-purpose alternating current, AC electric power supply; General-purpose autonomous robots;

  3. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.

  4. General-purpose technology - Wikipedia

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    General-purpose technologies (GPTs) are technologies that can affect an entire economy (usually at a national or global level). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] GPTs have the potential to drastically alter societies through their impact on pre-existing economic and social structures.

  5. NEMA enclosure types - Wikipedia

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    General-purpose. Protects against dust, light, and indirect splashing but is not dust-tight; primarily prevents contact with live parts; used indoors and under normal atmospheric conditions. 2: Drip-tight. Similar to Type 1 but with addition of drip shields; used where condensation may be severe (as in cooling and laundry rooms). 3: Weather ...

  6. List of programming languages by type - Wikipedia

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    Transformation languages serve the purpose of transforming (translating) source code specified in a certain formal language into a defined destination format code. It is most commonly used in intermediate components of more complex super-systems in order to adopt internal results for input into a succeeding processing routine.

  7. Comparison of instruction set architectures - Wikipedia

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    An instruction set architecture (ISA) is an abstract model of a computer, also referred to as computer architecture.A realization of an ISA is called an implementation.An ISA permits multiple implementations that may vary in performance, physical size, and monetary cost (among other things); because the ISA serves as the interface between software and hardware.

  8. Scripting language - Wikipedia

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    On the other hand, Rexx was originally created as a job control language, but is widely used as an extension language as well as a general-purpose language. Perl is a general-purpose language, but had the Oraperl (1990) dialect, consisting of a Perl 4 binary with Oracle Call Interface compiled in.

  9. Signal processing - Wikipedia

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    Processing is done by general-purpose computers or by digital circuits such as ASICs, field-programmable gate arrays or specialized digital signal processors. Typical arithmetical operations include fixed-point and floating-point , real-valued and complex-valued, multiplication and addition.