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Tool

A tool or device is a piece of equipment which typically provides a mechanical advantage in accomplishing a physical task

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Game development tool

a specialized software application that assists or facilitates the making of a computer or video game

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Tool bit

The term tool bit generally refers to a non-rotary cutting tool used in metal lathes, shapers, and planers

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Neolithic alias Tool age

was a period in the development of human technology beginning about 10,000 B.C. in the Middle East that is traditionally the last part of the Stone Age

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Real Robot alias mecha that is treated as a realistic tool rather than as a heroic semi-char

a term first seen in the Super Robot Wars series of video games, to describe robots or mecha that are treated as realistic tools/weapons rather than as heroic semi-characters, or Super Robots

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Writing implement alias Writing tool

Most of these items can be also used for other functions such as painting, drawing and technical drawing, but writing instruments generally have the unique requirement to create a smooth, controllable line

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Tooltime

hosted by Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor (played by Tim Allen)

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Business Card

Visiting cards became an indispensable tool of etiquette, with sophisticated rules governing their use

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PowerDesigner

a collaborative enterprise modelling tool produced by Sybase

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Software repository

For example, many Linux distributions use Advanced Packaging Tool or yum

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Dog

a tool that prevents movement or imparts movement by offering physical obstruction or engagement of some kind

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Cultivar

The practice of patent protection (legally protecting) is an important tool to encourage the development of new useful cultivars; "protected cultivars" are the result of deliberate breeding programs and selection activity by nurseries and plant breed

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Shapeshifting

can be a rich symbolical and narrative tool

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archaic Homo sapiens

They were seemingly well adapted to different environmental stresses, as evidenced by the wide distribution of their tool and fossil remains

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Human evolution

Using tools has been interpreted as a sign of intelligence, and it has been theorized that tool use may have stimulated certain aspects of human evolution—most notably the continued expansion of the human brain

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Geography

As spatial interrelationships are key to this synoptic science, maps are a key tool

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Universe of discourse

The domain of discourse, sometimes called the universe of discourse, logical discourse, or simply discourse, is an analytic tool used in deductive logic, especially predicate logic

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Commutative algebra

the main technical tool in the local study of schemes

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Art of Illusion

Some of its features, like the use of online repositories and a built-in downloading tool for installing extensions, are not found in similar proprietary software

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Scotland

home to the D'Elia Antique Tool Museum

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Crystal Reports

Several other applications, such as Microsoft Visual Studio, bundle an OEM version of Crystal Reports as a general purpose reporting tool

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John Abner Race

was in the machine tool industry, and was involved in the labor union, serving as chairman of the bargaining and grievance committee of Local Lodge 1420 of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers

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Representation theory

an powerful tool because it reduces problems in abstract algebra to problems in linear algebra, which is well-understood

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Jack Fairman

Fairman was only an occasional racing driver, his main source of income coming from running the family precision tool manufacturing company

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Langdale axe industry

the name given by archaeologists to the centre of a specialised stone tool manufacturing at Great Langdale in England's Lake District during the Neolithic

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Mergers and acquisitions

a tool used by companies for the purpose of expanding their operations often aiming at an increase of their long term profitability

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Acid

It has been used mainly as a recreational drug, an entheogen, and as a tool to supplement various practices for transcendence, including in meditation, psychonautics, art projects, and illicit psychedelic therapy

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ACID Pro

To be able to do this, Sony's Acid Pro uses specially prepared or "Acidized" music wave files which can be prepared using an audio editing tool such as Sony Soundforge. (for more information on audio editing, see sound effect techniques)

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Galoot

Within Internet-based woodworking communities, a galoot is a hand tool aficionado, specifically old hand tools

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Lower Paleolithic

The earliest hominids, known as australopithecines (personified by the famous find of Lucy in Ethiopia) were not advanced stone tool users and were likely to have been common prey for larger animals

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The World

operated by Software Tool & Die and used to use the domain name world.std.com; it now uses mainly TheWorld.com, though world.std.com is also used for certain things

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Anderson

Among the major industries in Anderson are Anderson Tool and Engineering, Barber Manufacturing, Prairie Farms Dairy, Hoosier Park, and Warner Press

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Culture

Scholars have long viewed this capacity as a defining feature of humans (although some primatologists have identified aspects of culture such as learned tool making and use among humankind's closest relatives in the animal kingdom)

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Microbiological culture

It is one of the primary diagnostic methods of microbiology and used as a tool to determine the cause of infectious disease

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Archaic Homo sapiens

They were seemingly well adapted to different environmental stresses, as evidenced by the wide distribution of their tool and fossil remains

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Rave Wireless

Guardian™ is a unique personal safety tool that lets students use their mobile phones to instantly share location and critical safety information with campus police, whenever and wherever they're in distress

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Lambda calculus

It was introduced by Alonzo Church and Stephen Cole Kleene in the 1930s as part of an investigation into the foundations of mathematics, but has emerged as a useful tool in the investigation of problems in computability or recursion theory, and forms

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Web content

Because websites are often complex, a term "content management" appeared in the late 1990s identifying a method or in some cases a tool to organize all the diverse elements to be contained on a website

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The Metal

A short movie entitled Time Fixers was used as a promotional tool on the iTunes website

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progressive rock

band Tool from their 2001 album Lateralus

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domain of discourse

sometimes called the universe of discourse, logical discourse, or simply discourse, is an analytic tool used in deductive logic, especially predicate logic

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America's Army

The latest version 2.8, includes a tool called AAEditor (also referred to as the America's Army Mission Editor, or AAME), based on the same Unreal editing tool used to create the official maps currently in AA, in order to allow players make and submi

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English Wheel

a metalworking tool used to form sheet metal

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Drill bit

Bits are held in a tool called a drill, which rotates them and provides axial force to create the hole

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Molecular clock

technique is an important tool in molecular systematics, the use of molecular genetics information to determine the correct scientific classification of organisms or to study variation in selective forces

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Transistor–transistor logic

Before the advent of VLSI devices, TTL integrated circuits were a standard method of construction for the processors of mini-computer and mainframe processors; such as the DEC VAX and Data General Eclipse, and for equipment such as machine tool numer

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Election

The universal acceptance of elections as a tool for selecting representatives in modern democracies is in contrast with the practice in the democratic archetype, ancient Athens

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University of Texas at El Paso

This hand symbol represents the traditional tool used by Miners, the pickaxe

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French Republican Calendar

Instead of most days having a saint as in the Roman Catholic calendar of saints, each day has an animal (days ending in 5), a tool (days ending in 0) or else a plant or mineral (all other days) associated with it

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Ubuntu

focuses on usability, including the widespread use of the sudo tool for administrative tasks

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Strainer

In general, a sieve separates wanted/desired elements from unwanted material using a tool such as a mesh, net or other filtration or distillation methods, but it is also used for classification of powders by particle size, or for size measurement as

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Socrates

The latter remains a commonly used tool in a wide range of discussions, and is a type of pedagogy in which a series of questions are asked not only to draw individual answers, but to encourage fundamental insight into the issue at hand

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Microscopy

The development of microscopy revolutionized biology and remains an essential tool in that science, along with many others

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Metronome

It is a useful practice tool for musicians that dates back to the early 19th century

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Microsoft Visual Studio

does not support any programming language, solution or tool intrinsically

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State pattern

Take for example, a drawing program, in which there could be an abstract interface representing a tool, then concrete instances of that class could each represent a kind of tool

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Root cause analysis

Thus, RCA is often considered to be an iterative process, and is frequently viewed as a tool of continuous improvement

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Site map

It can be either a document in any form used as a planning tool for web design, or a web page that lists the pages on a web site, typically organized in hierarchical fashion

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Celestial sphere

projection is a very practical tool for positional astronomy

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Geneva ERS

It is a data warehousing ETL tool with either a CICS-based traditional 3270 or graphical user interface

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Body mass index

Though it does not actually measure the percentage of body fat, it is a useful tool to estimate a healthy body weight based on how tall a person is

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Autocorrelation

a mathematical tool for finding repeating patterns, such as the presence of a periodic signal which has been buried under noise, or identifying the missing fundamental frequency in a signal implied by its harmonic frequencies

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Humanoid robot

are used as a research tool in several scientific areas

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Linux distribution

There are tools available to help people make the decision, such as several different versions of the Linux Distribution Chooser and the universal package search tool, whohas

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Growth-share matrix

This helps the company allocate resources and is used as an analytical tool in brand marketing, product management, strategic management, and portfolio analysis

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Edge-notched card

To record data, the paper stock between a hole and the nearest edge was removed by a special notching tool

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Ecotourism

Natural resource management can be utilized as a specialized tool for the development of eco-tourism

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Sponge

In 1997, use of sponges as a tool was described in bottlenose dolphins in Shark Bay

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double-blind

Blinded research is an important tool in many fields of research, from medicine, to psychology and the social sciences, to forensics

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Forbes

The motto of Forbes magazine is "The Capitalist Tool."

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Oslo

A design tool code-named "Quadrant" that helps people define and interact with models in a rich and visual manner

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History of Japan

The Japanese covers a period starting from around 100,000 to 30,000 BC, when the earliest stone tool implements have been found, and ending around 12,000 BC, at the end of the last ice age, corresponding with the beginning of the Mesolithic Jōmon pe

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D-pad

appear on a number of menu-driven devices as a simple navigational tool; though superficially similar to those used for gaming devices, they are not optimized for real-time control and therefore can usually accept input from only one direction at a t

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Web template system

It is a web publishing tool present in content management systems, software frameworks, HTML editors, and many other contexts

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web template system

It is a web publishing tool present in content management systems, software frameworks, HTML editors, and many other contexts

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Machine taper

Machine tool operators must be able to install or remove tool bits quickly and easily

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Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung

The chief tool is the heavy ion accelerator facility consisting of UNILAC, the Universal Linear Accelerator (energy of 2 - 20 MeV per nucleon), SIS 18, the heavy-ion synchrotron (1 - 2 GeV/u) and ESR, the experimental storage ring (0.5 - 1 GeV/u) and

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Performance analysis

A profiler is a performance analysis tool that measures the behavior of a program as it executes, particularly the frequency and duration of function calls. (An instruction set simulator which is also - by necessity - a profiler, can measure the tota

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Organ

Latin: organum, "instrument, tool", from Greek όργανον - organon, "organ, instrument, tool"

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Online transaction processing

It is a great tool for any organization, but in using OLTP, there are a few things to be wary of: the security issues and economic costs

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