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  2. Distraction - Wikipedia

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    Distraction is the process of diverting the attention of an individual or group from a desired area of focus and thereby blocking or diminishing the reception of desired information.

  3. Names of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    Usage: Short scale: US, English Canada, modern British, Australia, and Eastern Europe; Long scale: French Canada, older British, Western & Central Europe; Apart from million, the words in this list ending with -illion are all derived by adding prefixes (bi-, tri-, etc., derived from Latin) to the stem -illion. [11]

  4. Telephone exchange names - Wikipedia

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    Telephone numbers listed in 1920 in New York City having three-letter exchange prefixes. In the United States, the most-populous cities, such as New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago, initially implemented dial service with telephone numbers consisting of three letters and four digits (3L-4N) according to a system developed by W. G. Blauvelt of AT&T in 1917. [1]

  5. Shackle code - Wikipedia

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    A shackle code is a cryptographic system used in radio communications on the battle field by the US military, the Rhodesian Army, and the Canadian Army, among other English speaking militaries which might not distribute or require sophisticated one-time use pads. It is specialized for the transmission of numerals.

  6. International Code of Signals - Wikipedia

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    The code also covers procedural aspects (how to initiate a call, the format of a message, how to format date and time, etc.), how naval ships (which usually use their own codes) indicate that they are using the ICS (by flying the code pennant), use in radiotelephony (use of the spoken word "Interco"), and various other matters (such as how an ...

  7. List of HTTP status codes - Wikipedia

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    This class of status code indicates the client must take additional action to complete the request. Many of these status codes are used in URL redirection. [2]A user agent may carry out the additional action with no user interaction only if the method used in the second request is GET or HEAD.

  8. Code word - Wikipedia

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    Code word, an element of a codebook designed so that the meaning of the code word is opaque without the code book Code name , a clandestine name or cryptonym used to identify sensitive information password , passcode, codeword, countersign; a word that is a special code for access, to pass a challenge of a sentry

  9. Microsoft Word - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft Word is a word processor program developed by Microsoft.It was first released on October 25, 1983, [10] under the name Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems. [11] [12] [13] Subsequent versions were later written for several other platforms including: IBM PCs running DOS (1983), Apple Macintosh running the Classic Mac OS (1985), AT&T UNIX PC (1985), Atari ST (1988), OS/2 (1989), Microsoft ...