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  2. General material designation - Wikipedia

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    General Material Designation creates a list of standardized terms, describing the material of the item. Examples of GMD terms commonly used in institutional cataloguing to identify material types include: cartographic material, electronic resource, game, graphic, kit, manuscript, microform, motion picture, music, realia, sound recording, and video recording. [1]

  3. GMD GMD1 - Wikipedia

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    The GMD GMD1 is a diesel locomotive originally produced by General Motors Diesel (GMD), the Canadian subsidiary of General Motors Electro-Motive Division, between August 1958 and April 1960. This road switcher locomotive is powered by a 12-cylinder EMD 567C diesel engine, capable of producing 1,200 horsepower (890 kW).

  4. Book discussion club - Wikipedia

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    It is often simply called a book club, a term that may cause confusion with a book sales club. Other terms include reading group , book group , and book discussion group . Book discussion clubs may meet in private homes, libraries , bookstores , online forums, pubs, and cafés, or restaurants, sometimes over meals or drinks.

  5. GMD GMDH-1 - Wikipedia

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    The GMD GMDH-1 was an experimental diesel-hydraulic, center-cab, switching locomotive built by General Motors Diesel of Canada.Four examples were built. [1] The first two locomotives were each fitted with a pair of 6-cylinder Detroit Diesel series 110 engines giving 600 horsepower (450 kW), while the second pair had two series 71 engines developing 800 hp (600 kW).

  6. Generalized minimum-distance decoding - Wikipedia

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    The proof of Lemma 1 can be also used to show [′ + ′] < for version2 of GMD. In the next section, we will see how to get a deterministic version of the GMD algorithm by choosing θ {\displaystyle \theta } from a polynomially sized set as opposed to the current infinite set [ 0 , 1 ] {\displaystyle [0,1]} .

  7. Ground-Based Midcourse Defense - Wikipedia

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    A Ground-Based Interceptor loaded into a silo at Fort Greely, Alaska in July 2004.. Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD), previously National Missile Defense (NMD), is an anti-ballistic missile system implemented by the United States of America for defense against ballistic missiles, during the midcourse phase of ballistic trajectory flight.

  8. Cook's Travellers Handbooks - Wikipedia

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    Cook's Tourists' Handbooks were a series of travel guide books for tourists published in the 19th-20th centuries by Thomas Cook & Son of London. The firm's founder, Thomas Cook , produced his first handbook to England in the 1840s, later expanding to Europe, Near East, North Africa, and beyond.

  9. Guide book - Wikipedia

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    A guide book to the 1915 Panama–California Exposition An assortment of guide books in Japan. A guide book or travel guide is "a book of information about a place designed for the use of visitors or tourists". [1] It will usually include information about sights, accommodation, restaurants, transportation, and activities.