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  2. Yod (astrology) - Wikipedia

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    In astrology (in the context of an astrological chart, birth chart or horoscope), a yod is a specific, planetary alignment that is formed by two planets being sextile to one another (60° apart), with a third planet being exactly 150° to the other two points, or quincunx (also called inconjunct). In essence, the three points add up as 150 ...

  3. Wallpaper (computing) - Wikipedia

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    A computer screen showing a background wallpaper photo of the Palace of Versailles. A wallpaper or background (also known as a desktop background, desktop picture or desktop image on computers) is a digital image (photo, drawing etc.) used as a decorative background of a graphical user interface on the screen of a computer, smartphone or other electronic device.

  4. Foreground and background - Wikipedia

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    Foreground and background or background and foreground may refer to: Background, foreground, sideground and postground intellectual property, distinct forms of intellectual property assets; Background subtraction, a technique in image processing and computer vision by which an image's foreground is extracted for further processing

  5. Glossary of computer hardware terms - Wikipedia

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    See also References External links A Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) A dedicated video bus standard introduced by INTEL enabling 3D graphics capabilities; commonly present on an AGP slot on the motherboard. (Presently a historical expansion card standard, designed for attaching a video card to a computer's motherboard (and considered high-speed at launch, one of the last off-chip parallel ...

  6. Software design pattern - Wikipedia

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    FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition offers a humorous example of over-complexity introduced by design patterns. [32] By definition, a pattern must be programmed anew into each application that uses it. Since some authors see this as a step backward from software reuse as provided by components, researchers have worked to turn patterns into components ...

  7. Yodh - Wikipedia

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    Yodh (also spelled jodh, yod, or jod) is the tenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician yōd 𐤉, Hebrew yud י ‎, Aramaic yod 𐡉, Syriac yōḏ ܝ, and Arabic yāʾ ي ‎. Its sound value is / j / in all languages for which it is used; in many languages, it also serves as a long vowel , representing / iː / .

  8. The surprising afterlife of a '70s L.A. cult: How the ... - AOL

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    Father Yod bestowed each member with a first name; they changed their middle and last names to the Aquarian. Like many religious and spiritual groups, the Source Family placed their faith in ...

  9. Sprite (computer graphics) - Wikipedia

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    In computer graphics, a sprite is a two-dimensional bitmap that is integrated into a larger scene, most often in a 2D video game. Originally, the term sprite referred to fixed-sized objects composited together, by hardware, with a background. [1] Use of the term has since become more general.