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  2. Optical mark recognition - Wikipedia

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    OMR is now used as an input device for data entry. Two early forms of OMR are paper tape and punch cards which use actual holes punched into the medium instead of pencil filled circles on the medium. Paper tape was used as early as 1857 as an input device for telegraph. [10] Punch cards were created in 1890 and were used as input devices for ...

  3. Probability of precipitation - Wikipedia

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    Probability of precipitation (PoP) is a commonly used term referring to the likelihood of precipitation falling in a particular area over a defined period of time, which is commonly a day, half day, or hour. The PoP measure is meaningless unless it is associated with an interval of time.

  4. Persistent organic pollutant - Wikipedia

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    The convention seeks to study and then judge whether or not a number of chemicals that have been developed with advances in technology and science can be categorized as POPs. The initial meeting in 2001 made a preliminary list, termed the "dirty dozen", of chemicals that are classified as POPs. [ 21 ]

  5. Multiple choice - Wikipedia

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    A multiple choice question, with days of the week as potential answers Multiple choice ( MC ), [ 1 ] objective response or MCQ (for multiple choice question ) is a form of an objective assessment in which respondents are asked to select only the correct answer from the choices offered as a list.

  6. Point of presence - Wikipedia

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    A point of presence (PoP) is an artificial demarcation point or network interface point between communicating entities. A common example is an ISP point of presence , the local access point that allows users to connect to the Internet with their Internet service provider (ISP). [ 1 ]

  7. Polarimeter - Wikipedia

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    A polarimeter [1] is a scientific instrument used to measure optical rotation: the angle of rotation caused by passing linearly polarized light through an optically active substance. [ 2 ] Some chemical substances are optically active, and linearly polarized (uni-directional) light will rotate either to the left (counter-clockwise) or right ...

  8. What is the difference between POP3 and IMAP? - AOL Help

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    POP3 and IMAP are 2 different methods used to access mail from a third-party email client or software. Each method downloads email data from AOL to your device or software, however, they differ in where the emails are stored. Review the differences and choose the protocol that's right for your needs.

  9. Category:Popular science - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "Popular science" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. ... 10 (UTC). Text is ...