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  2. Transverse wave - Wikipedia

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    Transverse waves are contrasted with longitudinal waves, where the oscillations occur in the direction of the wave. The standard example of a longitudinal wave is a sound wave or "pressure wave" in gases, liquids, or solids, whose oscillations cause compression and expansion of the material through which the wave is propagating. Pressure waves ...

  3. Production car speed record - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the world's record-breaking top speeds achieved by street-legal production cars (as opposed to concept cars or modified cars).For the purposes of this list eligible cars are defined in the list's rules.

  4. Machine learning - Wikipedia

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    Machine learning (ML) is a field of study in artificial intelligence concerned with the development and study of statistical algorithms that can learn from data and generalize to unseen data, and thus perform tasks without explicit instructions. [1]

  5. History of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    Map of early human migrations based on the Out of Africa theory; figures are in thousands of years ago (kya). [2]The peopling of the Americas began when Paleolithic hunter-gatherers (Paleo-Indians) entered North America from the North Asian Mammoth steppe via the Beringia land bridge, which had formed between northeastern Siberia and western Alaska due to the lowering of sea level during the ...

  6. Dead Poets Society - Wikipedia

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    Dead Poets Society is a 1989 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Peter Weir and written by Tom Schulman.The film, starring Robin Williams, is set in 1959 at a fictional elite boarding school called Welton Academy, [4] and tells the story of an English teacher who inspires his students through his teaching of poetry.

  7. Demographics of Scotland - Wikipedia

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    Year Population 1500 500,000 1600 800,000 1707 1,000,000 1755 1,265,380 1801 1,608,420 1811 1,805,864 1821 2,091,521 1831 2,364,386 1841 2,620,184

  8. Sampling (statistics) - Wikipedia

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    A visual representation of the sampling process. In statistics, quality assurance, and survey methodology, sampling is the selection of a subset or a statistical sample (termed sample for short) of individuals from within a statistical population to estimate characteristics of the whole population.

  9. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Wikipedia

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    The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere), written by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1797–98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads, is a poem that recounts the experiences of a sailor who has returned from a long sea voyage.