** Wafer testing ( where the electrical performance is verified )

** Wafer mounting

** Many embedded applications have a limited amount of physical space for circuitry ; keeping peripherals on-chip will reduce the space required for the circuit board.

** Digital filter, a system that performs mathematical operations to reduce or enhance certain aspects of a signal

** Increase pheomelanin, reduce eumelanin

** Four-input address-adders enables the Pentium to further reduce the address calculation latency compared to the 80486.

** The Hoover Institution releases an optimistic report that global warming will probably reduce mortality in the United States and provide Americans with valuable benefits.

** Reduction mammoplasty (" breast reduction "): removal of skin and glandular tissue, which is done to reduce back and shoulder pain in women with gigantomastia and / or for psychological benefit men with gynecomastia

** It is also used in ponds to reduce algae by changing the nutrient ratios in the water.

** Lupron depo shot is a GnRH agonist and is used to lower the hormone levels in the woman's body to prevent or reduce growth of endometriosis.

** Combination therapy is usually given with folinic acid supplements to reduce incidence of thrombocytopaenia.

** Humanitarian intervention, an attempt to reduce suffering within a state through armed conflict

** Fuel charge stratification, an internal combustion process using gasoline direct injection to reduce fuel consumption and emissions

** Beta-histine ( Serc ) is available in some countries and is thought to reduce the frequency of symptoms

** Diuretics such as hydrochlorothiazide ( Diazide ) have also been shown to reduce the frequency of symptoms

** The steel industry has a standing commitment to sustainability backed by significant investment in new technologies to improve energy efficiency, reduce carbon emissions and heighten productivity.

** High occupancy toll, a toll on single-occupant vehicles using high-occupancy vehicle lanes to reduce traffic congestion

** Reciprocal trade agreement, entered into in order to reduce ( or eliminate ) tariffs, quotas and other trade restrictions on items traded between the signatories

** Few leaves to reduce water loss through transpiration

** Online shopping promotion, potentially with automated delivery booths helping to solve the last mile problem and reduce shopping trips made by car.

** The blast furnace, used to reduce iron ore to pig iron

** The expressway was officially announced in 1965 to link the Outaouais and the Montréal area without crossing into Ontario, plans were altered several times to reduce the number of farms affected by the road and detoured north to connect to the end of A-13 ( never completed past A-640 ) and to facilitate access from Ottawa-Hull to the planned International Airport at Mirabel ( built and in operation from 1975 until 2004, but currently unused by travelers ).

** Grants and loans to reduce Colorado River water use

** Exception: therapeutic use of lumbar puncture to reduce ICP

** reduce cognitive load by bringing together lower level data into a higher-level summation.

** Fold skin to reduce exposure.

** Stratigraphic mapping: the locations of sedimentary facies ( lithofacies and biofacies ) or the mapping of isopachs of equal thickness of sedimentary rock

** Describing the rock formation, a formal process of documenting thickness, lithology, outcrop, distribution, contact relationships to other formations

** // means the thickness of the coating was either not measurable or not affecting usage of the runway

** Defined as length of stave, diameter of head, distance between heads, circumference of bulge outside measurement ; representing as nearly as possible 7, 056 cubic inches ; and the thickness of staves not greater than (

** One prominent example of a wafer bonding process is the Smart Cut method developed by the French firm Soitec which uses ion implantation followed by controlled exfoliation to determine the thickness of the uppermost silicon layer.

** Most round brilliant diamonds have roughly the same girdle thickness at all 16 " thick parts ".

** A very modern one has a mechanical engine that twists the pencil lead 9 degrees counter clockwise every time the lead is pressed on to the paper to keep the lead 50 % less broad than the common propelling mechanical pencils, resulting in uniform thickness of the lines written onto the paper.

** Standard sea-floor mooring technology is used to deploy upward looking sonar ( ULS ) to provide a view of ice thickness as ice drifts through the field of view of the ULS.

** Ice-mounted buoys are used to provide direct measurements of ice thickness as it evolves over the seasons at a given point in the ice.

** Remote plasma-enhanced CVD ( RPECVD ) – Similar to PECVD except that the wafer substrate is not directly in the plasma discharge region.

** Ion implantation ( in which dopants are embedded in the wafer creating regions of increased ( or decreased ) conductivity )

** Oreo Heads or Tails have vanilla creme filling with a chocolate Oreo wafer on one side and a Golden Oreo wafer on the other.

** Les hosties de queues plates: ( literally, " the communion wafer flat-tails ".

** for all f in X ′ there exists x in X with ǁxǁ ≤ 1, so that f ( x ) = ǁfǁ.

** Ratchet: typical bicycles have these so that the rider can stop pedaling and coast

** Royal Canadian Mounted Police — accorded the status of a regiment of Dragoons in 1921 and remained so until 1937.

In programming languages such as Ada, Fortran, Perl, Python and Ruby, a double asterisk is used, so is written as " x ** 2 ".

** In the Star Trek: Enterprise episodes " Demons " and " Terra Prime " ( both 2005 ) it is revealed that Mars is in the process of being terraformed by use of the Verteron array which redirects comets to crashland on the planet's surface ; by 2155 the atmosphere had been sufficiently altered so that, in the lowlands, Humans could breathe the air unassisted, though temperatures were still cold enough to require thermal gear.

** Chess Module-The Odyssey2 didn't have enough memory and computing power for a decent implementation of chess on its own, so the C7010 chess module contained a secondary CPU with its own extra memory to run the chess program.

** The disturbances became more malevolent when the poltergeist pushed the family's two dogs down the stairs, one being injured so seriously it had to be put down.

** A doubly linked list has O ( 1 ) insertion and deletion at both ends, so is a natural choice for queues.

** Salt, allowing a horse to catch the nagana disease, so that after recovery the horse can be used in infected areas

** 95. americium, Am, named because it is an analog to europium, and so was named after the continent where it was first produced ( 1944 ).

** Nuclear test: Under Project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon, becoming the 6th nation to do so.

** The American nuclear submarine USS Seadragon ( SSN-584 ) surfaced through the arctic ice cap at the North Pole, the first submarine ever to do so.

** LSD is made illegal in the United States and controlled so strictly that not only were possession and recreational use criminalized, but all legal scientific research programs on the drug in the US were shut down as well.

** WWII: Winston Churchill pays tribute in the House of Commons to the Royal Air Force: " Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

** The United States dollar exchange rate with the Deutsche Mark falls to 1. 7079 DM, the all-time low so far ; this record is not broken until November 5, 1987.

** Mikhail Gorbachev visits China, the first Soviet leader to do so since the 1960s.

** The MCC makes an ultimately controversial decision to alter the lbw rule so a batsman can be lbw to a ball pitching outside off stump.

** In some broader types of Cockney, the neutralisation of before non-prevocalic may also involve, so that fall becomes homophonous with full and fool.

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** Clandestine operation, an intelligence or military operation carried out so that the operation goes unnoticed

** In the English Fenland through the vehemence of the wind and the violence of the sea, the monastery of Spalding and many churches are overthrown and destroyed " All the whole country in the parts of Holland was for the most part turned into a standing pool so that an intolerable multitude of men, women and children were overwhelmed with the water, especially in the town of Boston, a great part thereof was destroyed.

** RISC — arithmetic instructions use registers only, so explicit 2-operand load / store instructions are needed: load a, reg1 ; load b, reg2 ; add reg1 + reg2 -> reg3 ; store reg3, c ; unlike 2-operand or 1-operand, this leaves all three values a, b, and c in registers available for further reuse.