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  2. Radar beacon - Wikipedia

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    Radar beacon. Racon signal as seen on a radar screen. This beacon receives using sidelobe suppression and transmits the letter "Q" in Morse code near Boston Harbor (Nahant) 17 January 1985. Radar beacon (short: racon) is – according to article 1.103 of the International Telecommunication Union's (ITU) ITU Radio Regulations (RR) [1 ...

  3. Retinotopy - Wikipedia

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    Retinotopy (from Greek τόπος (tópos) 'place') is the mapping of visual input from the retina to neurons, particularly those neurons within the visual stream. For clarity, 'retinotopy' can be replaced with 'retinal mapping', and 'retinotopic' with 'retinally mapped'. Visual field maps (retinotopic maps) are found in many amphibian and ...

  4. Maidenhead Locator System - Wikipedia

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    The Maidenhead Locator System (a.k.a. QTH Locator and IARU Locator) is a geocode system used by amateur radio operators to succinctly describe their geographic coordinates, which replaced the deprecated QRA locator, which was limited to European contacts. [1] Its purpose is to be concise, accurate, and robust in the face of interference and ...

  5. List of North American Numbering Plan area codes - Wikipedia

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    1993: split to create 905. 2001: overlaid by 647. 2013: overlaid by 437. 2025: overlaid by 942. area code 387 is reserved as a fifth code for the region. 417. Missouri ( Springfield, Joplin, Branson, Lamar, Lebanon, and most of southwestern Missouri) 1950. created from parts of the area codes 314 and 816.

  6. Area codes 512 and 737 - Wikipedia

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    Area codes 512 and 737 are North American telephone area codes serving Austin, Texas, and its suburbs. Counties currently served by these area codes include Bastrop, Burnet, Caldwell, Hays, Travis, Milam and Williamson . Area code 512 was one of the original area codes established in October 1947. At that time it covered most of the south ...

  7. Ray tracing (graphics) - Wikipedia

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    In 3D computer graphics, ray tracing is a technique for modeling light transport for use in a wide variety of rendering algorithms for generating digital images . On a spectrum of computational cost and visual fidelity, ray tracing-based rendering techniques, such as ray casting, recursive ray tracing, distribution ray tracing, photon mapping ...

  8. List of Maryland area codes - Wikipedia

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    The blue area is assigned area codes 301, 240, and 227; the red area is area codes 410, 443 and 667. The state of Maryland is served by the following area codes: Area codes. Numbering plan area. 227.

  9. List of Illinois area codes - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the area codes in the state of Illinois and its numbering plan areas in the North American Numbering Plan.. All NPAs within Illinois. 217/447: Central Illinois, including the region running west from the Illinois-Indiana border through Danville, Effingham, Champaign–Urbana, Decatur, Springfield, Quincy until Illinois' western border with Missouri and Iowa.

  10. List of Virginia area codes - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of area codes in the Commonwealth of Virginia . 276 — Southwest corner of the state including Bristol, Galax, Martinsville, and Wytheville (September 1, 2001 as split from 540). 434 — South central area including Charlottesville and Lynchburg (June 1, 2001 as split from 804). 540/826 — Central and North including ...

  11. List of Wisconsin area codes - Wikipedia

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    List of Wisconsin area codes. The U.S. state of Wisconsin is serviced in five distinct numbering plan areas (NPAs) with the following area codes of the North American Numbering Plan (NANP). Area codes 414 and 715 were among the original North American area codes assigned in 1947. Milwaukee County and several outlying areas served by Milwaukee ...