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  2. Encroachment - Wikipedia

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    Encroachment is to advance beyond proper limits, and may refer to: Temporal encroachment; Structural encroachment; Encroachment (gridiron football), a penalty in American and Canadian football; Encroachment by human populations on natural spaces that causes habitat fragmentation or habitat destruction

  3. Temporal encroachment - Wikipedia

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    Here encroachment on flood plains by buildings engenders encroachment by flooding. Encroachment from rising sea levels: This is a more dramatic and permanent example of encroachment from flooding whose major effects are predicted to become evident over the coming decades. It is caused by failure to respond effectively to the challenge of global ...

  4. Structural encroachment - Wikipedia

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    A structural encroachment is a concept in real property law, in which a piece of real property projects from one property over or under the property line of another landowner's premises. The actual structure that encroaches might be a tree, bush, bay window , stairway, steps, stoop , garage, leaning fence, part of a building, or other fixture .

  5. Urban sprawl - Wikipedia

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    Measures for urban sprawl in Europe: upper left the Dispersion of the built-up area (DIS), upper right the weighted urban proliferation (WUP). The term urban sprawl was often used in the letters between Lewis Mumford and Frederic J. Osborn, [17] firstly by Osborn in his 1941 letter to Mumford and later by Mumford, generally condemning the waste of agricultural land and landscape due to ...

  6. Acrostic (puzzle) - Wikipedia

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    Letters 16 and 17 form a two-letter word ending in P. Since this has to be UP, letter 16 is a U, which can be filled into the appropriate clue answer in the list of clues. Likewise, a three-letter word starting with A could be and, any, all, or even a proper name like Ann. One might need more clue answers before daring to guess which it could be.

  7. Woody plant encroachment - Wikipedia

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    Woody plant encroachment is the increase in abundance of indigenous woody plants, such as shrubs and bushes, at the expense of herbaceous plants, grasses and forbs, in grasslands and shrublands. The term encroachment is thus used to describe how woody plants outcompete grasses during a given time, typically years or decades.

  8. Eruv - Wikipedia

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    The term eruv is a shortening of eruv chatzerot (עירוב חצרות ‎), literally a "merger of [different] domains" (into a single domain). This makes carrying within the area enclosed by the eruv no different from carrying within a single private domain (such as a house owned by an individual), which is permitted.

  9. Hindustani phonology - Wikipedia

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    Loanwords from Persian (including some words which Persian itself borrowed from Arabic or Turkish) introduced six consonants, /f, z, ʒ, q, x, ɣ/. Being Persian in origin, these are seen as a defining feature of Urdu, although these sounds officially exist in Hindi and modified Devanagari characters are available to represent them.