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  2. Creeper (Minecraft) - Wikipedia

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    A creeper is a fictional creature in the sandbox video game Minecraft.Creepers are hostile mobs (mobile non-player characters) that spawn in dark places.Instead of attacking the player directly, they creep up on the player and explode, destroying blocks in the surrounding area and potentially hurting or killing the player if they are within the blast radius.

  3. Glossary of video game terms - Wikipedia

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    2. The act of waiting around a rare mob or player's spawn point, usually in MMOs. This may be known as spawn-camping or spawn-trapping. capture the flag (CTF) A common game mode in multiplayer video games, where the goal is to capture and retrieve a flag from the opposing side's territory while defending the flag in one's own territory. carry

  4. Greenfield (Minecraft) - Wikipedia

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    According to Planet Minecraft statistics, Greenfield is the third-most downloaded Minecraft map of all time. [ 6 ] Greenfield is designed to resemble the West Coast of the United States, heavily inspired by Los Angeles , [ 2 ] and is built to a one-to-one scale, with each block's size being one cubic meter. [ 7 ]

  5. Non-player character - Wikipedia

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    A non-player character greets the player in the 2019 video game A Short Hike.. A non-player character (NPC), also called a non-playable character, is a character in a game that is not controlled by a player. [1]

  6. Acoustic location - Wikipedia

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    Swedish soldiers operating an acoustic locator in 1940. Acoustic location is a method of determining the position of an object or sound source by using sound waves. Location can take place in gases (such as the atmosphere), liquids (such as water), and in solids (such as in the earth).

  7. Passive radar - Wikipedia

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    The concept of passive radar detection using reflected ambient radio signals emanating from a distant transmitter is not new. The first radar experiments in the United Kingdom in 1935 by Robert Watson-Watt demonstrated the principle of radar by detecting a Handley Page Heyford bomber at a distance of 12 km using the BBC shortwave transmitter at Daventry.

  8. Free-space path loss - Wikipedia

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    In telecommunications, the free-space path loss (FSPL) (also known as free-space loss, FSL) is the attenuation of radio energy between the feedpoints of two antennas that results from the combination of the receiving antenna's capture area plus the obstacle-free, line-of-sight (LoS) path through free space (usually air). [1]

  9. Mobbing (animal behavior) - Wikipedia

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    Similarly, humpback whales are known to mob killer whales when the latter are attacking other species, including other cetacean species, seals, sea lions, and fish. [17] There is a distinction though, between mobbing in animals, and fight-or-flight response. The former relies heavily on group dynamics, whereas the latter’s central focus ...