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  2. Five themes of geography - Wikipedia

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    Relative location, a location as described by where it is compared to something else. For example, Albany, New York is roughly 140 miles north of New York City. Every site on Earth has a unique absolute location, which can be identified with a reference grid (such as latitude and longitude).

  3. Location - Wikipedia

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    An icon representing the concept of location. In geography, location or place are used to denote a region (point, line, or area) on Earth's surface.The term location generally implies a higher degree of certainty than place, the latter often indicating an entity with an ambiguous boundary, relying more on human or social attributes of place identity and sense of place than on geometry.

  4. Geography of Ethiopia - Wikipedia

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    Average relative humidity (%) 52 51 53 59 55 68 78 80 75 57 ... Questions remain about the precise location of small parcels along the border with Sudan as well. [20 ...

  5. Viewing the market through relatives and absolutes

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    For instance, size is an absolute. And the relative terms used to describe size include "growing" and "shrinking." But the concept of growth can also be considered an absolute. And relative terms ...

  6. Linguistic frame of reference - Wikipedia

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    A frame of reference is a coordinate system used to identify the physical location of an object. In languages, different frames of reference can be used. They are: the relative frame of reference, the intrinsic frame of reference, and the absolute frame of reference. Each frame of reference in a language can be associated with distinct ...

  7. Talk:Absolute location - Wikipedia

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    This article should included into the Location (geography) page. The notion of absolute location is false (see my comments above, plus "Teaching geography", Philip Gersmehl, page 60 - it's on Google Books), and besides there is no longer an article for relative location (which is a real concept).

  8. Relative dating - Wikipedia

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    Craters are very useful in relative dating; as a general rule, the younger a planetary surface is, the fewer craters it has. If long-term cratering rates are known to enough precision, crude absolute dates can be applied based on craters alone; however, cratering rates outside the Earth-Moon system are poorly known. [8]

  9. PayPal fixes outage that affected thousands worldwide - AOL

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    The company experienced a system issue that affected multiple products including account withdrawals, peer-to-peer payment service Venmo, online checkout and crypto. PayPal said the issue, which ...