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  2. Volition (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    That same sentence that used an additional clause can be expressed as a simple sentence, which can be considered a unitary event. [9] The differences between the two sentence constructions deals in the transitivity of the verb. An example of each sentence form is shown below. In example a, 'topple' takes on only one argument, the subject.

  3. Volatile memory - Wikipedia

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    Volatile memory has several uses including as primary storage. In addition to usually being faster than forms of mass storage such as a hard disk drive, volatility can protect sensitive information, as it becomes unavailable on power-down. Most general-purpose random-access memory (RAM) is volatile. [1]

  4. Type qualifier - Wikipedia

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    shared is used for shared data in multi-threading (as volatile was briefly used for in C++). inout is a wildcard used to allow functions that do not modify data (and thus are only concerned with the unqualified type of the data) to return the same qualified type as the input. const and immutable can also be used as storage class specifiers.

  5. volatile (computer programming) - Wikipedia

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    In C and C++, volatile is a type qualifier, like const, and is a part of a type (e.g. the type of a variable or field). The behavior of the volatile keyword in C and C++ is sometimes given in terms of suppressing optimizations of an optimizing compiler: 1- don't remove existing volatile reads and writes, 2- don't add new volatile reads and writes, and 3- don't reorder volatile reads and writes.

  6. Volatility - Wikipedia

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    Volatile anaesthetics, a class of anaesthetics which evaporate or vaporize easily; Volatile substance abuse, the abuse of household inhalants containing volatile compounds; Volatile oil, also known as essential oil, an oil derived from plants with aromatic compounds used in cosmetic and flavoring industries

  7. What does NSFW mean? Study reveals text abbreviations ... - AOL

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    Use it in a sentence: "I can't tell if he is deep in thought right now or just mewing." Ohio - It's not the state, if you can believe it. Unfortunately for Ohioans, "Ohio" has a slang meaning of ...

  8. Solid-state storage - Wikipedia

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    Solid-state storage (SSS) is non-volatile computer storage that has no moving parts; it uses only electronic circuits. This solid-state design dramatically differs from the commonly-used competing technology of electromechanical magnetic storage which uses moving media coated with magnetic material.

  9. Interjection - Wikipedia

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    An interjection is a word or expression that occurs as an utterance on its own and expresses a spontaneous feeling or reaction. [1] [2] It is a diverse category, encompassing many different parts of speech, such as exclamations (ouch!, wow!