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  2. Memorization - Wikipedia

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    Mnemonics are often verbal, such as a very short poem or a special word used to help a person remember something, particularly lists, but they may be visual, kinesthetic or auditory. Mnemonics rely on associations between easy-to-remember constructs which can be related back to the data that is to be remembered. This is based on the principle ...

  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. Paremiology - Wikipedia

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    Paremiology can be dated back as far as Aristotle. Paremiography, on the other hand, is the collection of proverbs.The proverb scholar Wolfgang Mieder defines the term proverb as follows:

  5. Proverb - Wikipedia

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    The Oromo version uses poetic features, such as the initial ha in both clauses with the final -aa in the same word, and both clauses ending with -an. Also, both clauses are built with the vowel a in the first and last words, but the vowel i in the one syllable central word. In contrast, the Amharic and Alaaba versions of the proverb show little ...

  6. Piphilology - Wikipedia

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    The word is a play on the word "pi" itself and of the linguistic field of philology. There are many ways to memorize π, including the use of piems (a portmanteau, formed by combining pi and poem), which are poems that represent π in a way such that the length of each word (in letters) represents a digit. [1]

  7. Password - Wikipedia

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    The easier a password is for the owner to remember generally means it will be easier for an attacker to guess. [12] However, passwords that are difficult to remember may also reduce the security of a system because (a) users might need to write down or electronically store the password, (b) users will need frequent password resets and (c) users are more likely to re-use the same password ...

  8. New Biological Nomenclature - Wikipedia

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    Memorizable system: the names consist of understandable common words (in accordance with the case, one, two or three words). Regular system: fixed endings for taxa of the same level. Orienting system: each N.B.N. name has a link (by way of a key word) with the name of the corresponding order to which it belongs.

  9. Domain name - Wikipedia

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    An important function of domain names is to provide easily recognizable and memorizable names to numerically addressed Internet resources. This abstraction allows any resource to be moved to a different physical location in the address topology of the network, globally or locally in an intranet. Such a move usually requires changing the IP ...