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  2. List of stock characters - Wikipedia

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    A minor, expendable character who is killed soon after being introduced. This refers to characters from the original Star Trek television series, often from the security or engineering departments of the starship, who wore the red Starfleet uniform. They are cannon fodder. Stormtroopers ; Goomba (Super Mario) Jenkins (Mass Effect)

  3. Stars in fiction - Wikipedia

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    Stars as sentient beings, in one form or another, is a recurring theme. [1] [2] [3] [27] Anthropomorphized, thinking stars appear in Olaf Stapledon's 1937 novel Star Maker and Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson's Starchild trilogy consisting of the 1964 novel The Reefs of Space, the 1965 novel Starchild, and the 1969 novel Rogue Star.

  4. Unimodality - Wikipedia

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    A simple bimodal distribution. Figure 3. A bimodal distribution. Note that only the largest peak would correspond to a mode in the strict sense of the definition of mode. In statistics, a unimodal probability distribution or unimodal distribution is a probability distribution which has a single peak.

  5. Inverted bell curve - Wikipedia

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    In statistics, an inverted bell curve is a term used loosely or metaphorically to refer to a bimodal distribution that falls to a trough between two peaks, rather than (as in a standard bell curve) rising to a single peak and then falling off on both sides.

  6. Multimodal distribution - Wikipedia

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    A simple bimodal distribution, in this case a mixture of two normal distributions with the same variance but different means. The figure shows the probability density function (p.d.f.), which is an equally-weighted average of the bell-shaped p.d.f.s of the two normal distributions. If the weights were not equal, the resulting distribution could ...

  7. Buchdahl's theorem - Wikipedia

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    Evolution of central pressure against compactness (radius over mass) for a uniform density 'star'. This central pressure diverges at the Buchdahl bound. In general relativity , Buchdahl's theorem , named after Hans Adolf Buchdahl , [ 1 ] makes more precise the notion that there is a maximal sustainable density for ordinary gravitating matter.

  8. Bimodality - Wikipedia

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    Bimodality is the simultaneous use of two distinct pitch collections. It is more general than bitonality since the "scales" involved need not be traditional scales; if diatonic collections are involved, their pitch centers need not be the familiar major and minor-scale tonics.

  9. Astronomy - Wikipedia

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    The English astronomer John Flamsteed catalogued over 3000 stars. [42] More extensive star catalogues were produced by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille . The astronomer William Herschel made a detailed catalog of nebulosity and clusters, and in 1781 discovered the planet Uranus , the first new planet found.