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  2. List of forms of word play - Wikipedia

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    Techniques that involve semantics and the choosing of words. Anglish: a writing using exclusively words of Germanic origin; Auto-antonym: a word that contains opposite meanings; Autogram: a sentence that provide an inventory of its own characters; Irony; Malapropism: incorrect usage of a word by substituting a similar-sounding word with ...

  3. Pagination - Wikipedia

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    Pagination, also known as paging, is the process of dividing a document into discrete pages, either electronic pages or printed pages.. In reference to books produced without a computer, pagination can mean the consecutive page numbering to indicate the proper order of the pages, which was rarely found in documents pre-dating 1500, and only became common practice c. 1550, when it replaced ...

  4. Memory paging - Wikipedia

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    An example is a 32-bit x86 processor with 4 GB and without Physical Address Extension (PAE). In this case, the processor is able to address all the RAM installed and no more. However, even in this case, paging can be used to support more virtual memory than physical memory. For instance, many programs may be running concurrently.

  5. Page (computer memory) - Wikipedia

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    This would be time-consuming. It would be much faster if the reader had a listing of how many words are on each page. From this listing they could determine which page the 5,000th word appears on, and how many words to count on that page. This listing of the words per page of the book is analogous to a page table of a computer file system. [5]

  6. Mnemonic - Wikipedia

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    A common mnemonic technique for remembering a list is to create an easily remembered acronym. Another is to create a memorable phrase with words which share the same first letter(s) (i.e.: the same initialism) as the list members. Mnemonic techniques can be applied to most memorization of novel materials.

  7. A big list will constantly show you what words you don't know and what you need to work on and is useful for testing yourself. Eventually these words will all be translated into big lists in many different languages and using the words in phrase contexts as a resource.

  8. Calculator spelling - Wikipedia

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    The Ultimate List – An 824 word list and an extended 1455 word list of English words possible to display on an upside down calculator, HTML code to aid their creation plus three 'micro stories' using only the available words. 251 words you can spell with a calculator. – Present&Correct 251 words you can spell with a calculator. (10/27/13)

  9. Mnemonic peg system - Wikipedia

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    For example, to remember the first 8 digits of Pi, using the major system as well: 3: Picture a monkey walking on the Sun. 1: Picture a dog jumping over a shoe. 4: Picture a bottle of rum hanging from a tree. 1: Picture a tube connecting to a door. 5: Picture bees flying from a cup of lemonade as if it is a hive.