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Jakarta sinks up to 100 centimeters in 12 years: expert
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 2/28/2005; 520 words
; Jakarta sinks up to 100 centimeters in 12 years: expert JAKARTA...caused Jakarta to sink by up to 100 centimeters over the past 12 years, according...North Jakarta sank by between two centimeters and eight centimeters per year...
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5 CENTIMETERS IS DANGER POINT FOR ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSMS.(Everyday Magazine)(Dr. Paul Donohue Column)
Newspaper article from: St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO); 9/7/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...abdominal aortic aneurysm of 3.84 centimeters. My doctors said they don't do anything until it reaches 5 centimeters. Why do they wait? Recently I had...and the aneurysm measured 3.87 centimeters. Is this cause for alarm? The doctors...
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Get centimeter-level results from single-frequency GPS.(GPS/GIS Integration)
Magazine article from: GEO World; 12/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...processing back at the office. Centimeter collection with an L1 receiver...confident the data are sub-centimeter until the processing has...If you're looking for centimeter accuracy, code can't quite...an L1 radio wave (19.4 centimeters), we can count the number...
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Magellan Offers Blade GNSS Signal Processing Technology for Real- time Centimeter Accuracy
Newspaper article from: Wireless News; 5/3/2007; 581 words
; ...Processing Technology for Real- time Centimeter Accuracy WIRELESS NEWS-May 3, 2007...Processing Technology for Real-time Centimeter Accuracy (C)2007 10Meters - http...solution that it said makes possible centimeter-level accuracy for real-time and...
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Centimeter-level data collector. (Surveying and Mapping).(Leica Geosystems GS50+)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
Magazine article from: GPS World; 8/1/2002; 700+ words
; ...frequency engine and RTK capacity, which, when combined, provide centimeter-level data collection results. The GS50+ can obtain 40-centimeter DGPS accuracy, 30-centimeter accuracy with post-processing code-observations, and 1-centimeter...
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Magellan's BLADE(TM) GNSS Signal Processing Enables Lower-Cost, Real-time Centimeter Accuracy.
Business Wire; 5/1/2007; 700+ words
; ...processing solution that makes possible centimeter-level accuracy for real-time and...signal reliability to enable rapid, centimeter-level solutions. Magellan's BLADE...improve satellite geometry to allow centimeter-level accuracies to be achieved in...
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 "The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)")
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Well-endowed.(20 Centimeters)(Movie review)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine); 11/7/2006; ; 540 words
; 20 Centimeters * Written and directed by Ramon Salazar...transsexual hookers, Ramon Salazar's 20 Centimeters is a vibrant, effervescent story of...save enough money to get rid of the 20 centimeters of flesh between her legs, Monica Cervera...
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Storm drops 60 centimeters (two feet) of snow in areas, giving northeastern United States a white Christmas
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 12/26/2002; ; 552 words
; ...Dateline: ALBANY, New York More than 60 centimeters (two feet) of snow fell in parts of...thunder. Snow was falling as fast as 13 centimeters (five inches) per hour in eastern...Maine was expected to see up to 45 centimeters (18 inches) of snow in places and...
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Kinneret up 53 centimeters so far this rainy season
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 1/20/2003; ; 541 words
; ...00-0000 Headline: Kinneret up 53 centimeters so far this rainy season Byline: DAVID...level of Lake Kinneret has risen by 53 centimeters since the beginning of the rainy season...water level had risen by a further four centimeters over the weekend as a result of scattered...
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WOMEN-VENEZUELA: WHERE VIOLENCE IS MEASURED IN CENTIMETERS
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire; 8/26/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...CARACAS, Aug. 25 (IPS) -- Seven centimeters. If a woman attempts to press charges...her wounds must measure at least seven centimeters. As Venezuela lacks legislation that...there were apparently not enough centimeters -- but rather his leaving home, a...
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centimeter
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
centimeter , abbr. cm, unit of length equal to 0.01 meter , the basic unit of length in the metric system . The centimeter is the unit of length in the cgs system . It is approximately equal to 0.39 inch, or 1 inch equals about 2.54 centimeters. See weights and measures .
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Density
Encyclopedia entry from: UXL Encyclopedia of Science
...instance, is 7.87 grams per cubic centimeter (7.87 g/cm 3 ). That statement means that one cubic centimeter (1 cm 3 ) of iron has a mass of 7...whose density is 1.00 gram per cubic centimeter. The specific gravity of iron, then...
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Common Weights and Measures
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Conversion Factors 1 centimeter&thinsp...thinsp;2.54 centimeters 1 meter&thinsp...Factors 1 square centimeter&thinsp...6.45 square centimeters 1 acre&thinsp...Factors 1 cubic centimeter&thinsp...16.4 cubic centimeters 1 cubic yard...
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Stainless Steel
Book article from: How Products Are Made
...inch (.47 centimeter) thick and...inches (25.4 centimeters) wide. Strip...inch (.47 centimeter) thick and...inches (61 centimeters) wide. Sheet...1875 (.47 centimeter) thick and...than 24 (61 centimeters) wide. Heat...
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Baseball
Book article from: How Products Are Made
...and 9.25 inches (22.86-23.49 centimeters) in circumference to conform to Major...measuring 13/16 of an inch (2.06 centimeters) in diameter, made of a cork and rubber...measures 4- ⅛ inches (10.47 centimeters) in circumference. There are four...
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