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  2. Trimmer (electronics) - Wikipedia

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    Trimmer potentiometers or "trimpots" A trimmer, or preset, is a miniature adjustable electrical component.It is meant to be set correctly when installed in some device, and never seen or adjusted by the device's user.

  3. The West Wing season 2 - Wikipedia

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    25.05 [2] During the aftermath of the shooting in Rosslyn , it becomes obvious that President Bartlet was shot in the back, Josh in the stomach, Charlie (the apparent target of the racist shooters, which a conspirator later confirms when he is arrested) remained unharmed, and the two shooters died at the scene.

  4. Index-matching material - Wikipedia

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    Typical oils used have an index of refraction around 1.515. [2] An oil immersion objective is an objective lens specially designed to be used in this way. The index of the oil is typically chosen to match the index of the microscope lens glass, and of the cover slip. For more details, see the main article, oil immersion.

  5. Pot-in-pot refrigerator - Wikipedia

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    A pot-in-pot refrigerator, clay pot cooler [1] or zeer (Arabic: زير) is an evaporative cooling refrigeration device which does not use electricity. It uses a porous outer clay pot (lined with wet sand) containing an inner pot (which can be glazed to prevent penetration by the liquid) within which the food is placed. The evaporation of the ...

  6. Invisibility - Wikipedia

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    Invisibility perception depends on several optical and visual factors. [1] For example, invisibility depends on the eyes of the observer and/or the instruments used. Thus an object can be classified as "invisible" to a person, animal, instrument, etc. In research on sensorial perception it has been shown that invisibility is perceived in cycles ...

  7. Magical objects in Harry Potter - Wikipedia

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    A Quick Quotes Quill is a stenographic tool, acid green in colour, employed by Rita Skeeter to spin the words of her subjects into a more salacious or melodramatic form. In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire , Skeeter uses the quill to interview Harry about his participation in the Triwizard Tournament for her column in The Daily Prophet .

  8. Honeypot (computing) - Wikipedia

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    An amalgam of these techniques is Project Honey Pot, a distributed, open-source project that uses honeypot pages installed on websites around the world. These honeypot pages disseminate uniquely tagged spamtrap email addresses and spammers can then be tracked—the corresponding spam mail is subsequently sent to these spamtrap e-mail addresses.

  9. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - Wikipedia

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    The second book, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, was originally published in the UK on 2 July 1998 and later, in the US on 2 June 1999. [59] [60] Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was then published a year later in the UK on 8 July 1999 and in the US on 8 September 1999.