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  2. Glossary of Mafia-related words - Wikipedia

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    This is a glossary of words related to the Mafia, primarily the Italian American Mafia and Sicilian Mafia. administration: the top-level "management" of an organized crime family -- the boss, underboss and consigliere. [1] associate: one who works with mobsters, but has not been asked to take the vow of Omertà; an almost confirmed, or made guy ...

  3. Cyclic redundancy check - Wikipedia

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    The advantage of choosing a primitive polynomial as the generator for a CRC code is that the resulting code has maximal total block length in the sense that all 1-bit errors within that block length have different remainders (also called syndromes) and therefore, since the remainder is a linear function of the block, the code can detect all 2 ...

  4. Morse code - Wikipedia

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    Chart of the Morse code 26 letters and 10 numerals [1]. This Morse key was originally used by Gotthard railway, later by a shortwave radio amateur [2]. Morse code is a telecommunications method which encodes text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations, called dots and dashes, or dits and dahs.

  5. 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 ...

  6. 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

  7. Two-letter country codes - Wikipedia

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    Two-letter country codes are used to represent countries and states (often both widely recognized and not) as a code of two letters. ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 is the main set of two-letter country codes that is currently used. This standard set of codes is a part of ISO 3166-1, also maintains a list of three-letter codes for countries (ISO 3166-1 ...

  8. List of dictionaries by number of words - Wikipedia

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    There is one count that puts the English vocabulary at about 1 million words — but that count presumably includes words such as Latin species names, prefixed and suffixed words, scientific terminology, jargon, foreign words of extremely limited English use and technical acronyms. [39] [40] [41] Urdu: 264,000

  9. Kaaba - Wikipedia

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    The literal meaning of the word Ka'bah (Arabic: كعبة) is cube. [8] In the Qur'an, from the era of the life of Muhammad, the Kaaba is mentioned by the following names: . al-Bayt (Arabic: ٱلْبَيْت, lit.