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  2. Kerning - Wikipedia

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    The source of the word kern is from the French word carne, meaning "projecting angle, quill of a pen". The French term originated from the Latin cardo , cardinis , meaning "hinge". [ 4 ] In the days when all type was cast metal , the parts of a typecasting sort that needed to overlap adjacent letters hung off the sort slug's edge.

  3. Help:Searching/Features - Wikipedia

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    The concept of a search domain plays an important part in all this. By default it is just article space, but in general a search domain starts out as a set of namespaces, and ends up as all the pages in the search result. One term of a query will set the search domain for another term in the same query. The order is optimized by the search engine.

  4. Full-text search - Wikipedia

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    In text retrieval, full-text search refers to techniques for searching a single computer-stored document or a collection in a full-text database. Full-text search is distinguished from searches based on metadata or on parts of the original texts represented in databases (such as titles, abstracts, selected sections, or bibliographical references).

  5. List of online dictionaries - Wikipedia

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    An online dictionary is a dictionary that is accessible via the Internet through a web browser. They can be made available in a number of ways: free, free with a paid subscription for extended or more professional content, or a paid-only service.

  6. List of academic databases and search engines - Wikipedia

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    Contains more than 1,500,000 full-text articles and 4,200 journals covering all academic disciplines and different languages. Provides full-text article search, RSS feeds and a mobile application to access the literature. Free Paperity: Philosophy Documentation Center eCollection: Applied ethics, Philosophy, Religious studies

  7. A-Z - Wikipedia

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    A–Z, by Colin Newman; A to Z, 2014 American television series on NBC; A to Z, or Geographers' A–Z Street Atlas; A-Z, collection of sportswear made in collaboration with the Swedish footballer Zlatan Ibrahimović; Geographers' A-Z Map Company, British map publisher

  8. Search engine indexing - Wikipedia

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    Generating or maintaining a large-scale search engine index represents a significant storage and processing challenge. Many search engines utilize a form of compression to reduce the size of the indices on disk. [19] Consider the following scenario for a full text, Internet search engine. It takes 8 bits (or 1 byte) to store a single character.

  9. Contextual searching - Wikipedia

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    Contextual search is a form of optimizing web-based search results based on context provided by the user and the computer being used to enter the query. [1] Contextual search services differ from current search engines based on traditional information retrieval that return lists of documents based on their relevance to the query.