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Listed pros and cons must, as for all content, be sourced by a reference, either in the list or elsewhere in the article. (A "criticisms and defenses" list is a backwards pro and con list. The opposing side is presented first, followed by the responses of the defending side. Lists of this form seem to grow out of more contentious articles.)
Geo-fence. A geofence is a virtual perimeter for a real-world geographic area. [1] A geofence can be dynamically generated (as in a radius around a point location) or match a predefined set of boundaries (such as school zones or neighborhood boundaries). The use of a geofence is called geofencing, and one example of use involves a location ...
For broader coverage of this topic, see Open-source-software movement. A screenshot of Manjaro running the Cinnamon desktop environment, Firefox accessing Wikipedia which uses MediaWiki, LibreOffice Writer, Vim, GNOME Calculator, VLC and Nemo file manager, all of which are open-source software Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the ...
Back to the original debate, there are pros and cons to "target" and "marginal". I agree that they shouldn't be used as synonyms as they are different. Moondragon21 18:55, 28 June 2024 (UTC) @Moondragon21 so on that, Wellingborough and Rushden is listed as a target for Labour with a required swing of over 17%. Could that reasonably be described ...
Calque. In linguistics, a calque ( / kælk /) or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal word-for-word or root-for-root translation. When used as a verb, “to calque” means to borrow a word or phrase from another language while translating its components, so as to create a new lexeme in the target language.
This list contains Germanic elements of the English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form. The correspondence is semantic—in most cases these words are not cognates, but in some cases they are doublets, i.e., ultimately derived from the same root, generally Proto-Indo-European, as in cow and beef, both ultimately from PIE *gʷōus.
Laissez-faire or free-rein leadership. In laissez-faire or free-rein leadership, decision-making is passed on to the subordinates. (The phrase laissez-faire is French and literally means "let them do"). Subordinates are given the right and power to make decisions to establish goals and work out the problems or hurdles, and are given a high ...
Pig Domestic pigs Conservation status Domesticated Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Artiodactyla Family: Suidae Genus: Sus Species: S. domesticus Binomial name Sus domesticus Erxleben, 1777 Synonyms Sus domestica Sus scrofa domesticus Linnaeus, 1758 The pig (Sus domesticus), also called swine (pl.: swine) or hog, is an ...