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A contiguous block of memory that is of fixed, hardware-dependent size, but often larger than a page and partitioning the memory such that two…

The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius…

To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.

A unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the base-two logarithms that define the bit.

A title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th century.

A public proclamation or edict; also, a summons by public proclamation, and in early use especially a summons to arms.

The gathering of the (French) king’s vassals for war; the whole body of vassals assembled this way, or liable to be summoned; originally the same as…

A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, slightly less than atmospheric pressure at sea level.

A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.

A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.

A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is ¹⁄₄ inch or…

A sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and East Asia, in which the objective is to strike a ball so that one of a nine-person team can run…