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electronic mail
electronic mail or e-mail, the electronic transmission of messages, letters, and documents. In its broadest sense electronic mail includes point-to-point services such as telegraph and facsimile (fax) systems. It is commonly thought of, however, in terms of computer-based message systems wh...
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e
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(also e−) Chem.
an electron.
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(e) Math.
the transcendental number that is the base of Napierian or natural logarithms, approximately equal to 2.71828.
e3 / ē/ • n. (pl. e's ) a...
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store
store commonly a shop or stall for the retail sale of commodities, but also a place where wholesale supplies are kept, exhibited, or sold. Retailing—the sale of merchandise to the consumer—is one of the oldest businesses in the world and was practiced in prehistoric times.
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Sir Samuel Cunard
Sir Samuel Cunard , 1787-1865, Canadian pioneer of regular transatlantic steam navigation, b. Halifax, N.S. The son of a United Empire Loyalist, he became a leading businessman of Nova Scotia and engaged in banking, lumbering, shipping, and shipbuilding enterprises. His fleet at one time numbered so...
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right of way
right of way in land and air traffic and in sea navigation, rules that determine precedence in the use of traffic lanes. The rules are framed in the simplest possible terms and with nearly absolute uniformity in order to minimize the possibility of collisions. In land traffic, railroad trains, mili...
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Dún Laoghaire
Dún Laoghaire , city (1991 pop. 55,540), Co. Dublin, E central Republic of Ireland, on the Irish Sea. It is the main passenger and mail port for Dublin and a seaside resort with yachting and fishing. With the opening of a railroad to Dublin in 1834 and the completion of the port in 1859, D&ua...
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Postal Service, U.S.
Postal Service, U.S. For most of its history, the postal service was the nation's largest civilian institution and the federal government's most visible manifestation in Americans’ everyday lives. Empowered by the Constitution to “establish Post Offices and post Roads,” Congress...
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the Internet
the Internet international computer network linking together thousands of individual networks at military and government agencies, educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, industrial and financial corporations of all sizes, and commercial enterprises (called gateways or service provider...
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advertising
advertising in general, any openly sponsored offering of goods, services, or ideas through any medium of public communication. At its inception advertising was merely an announcement; for example, entrepreneurs in ancient Egypt used criers to announce ship and cargo arrivals. The invention of print...
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stagecoach
stagecoach heavy, closed vehicle on wheels, usually drawn by horses, formerly used to transport passengers and goods overland. Throughout the Middle Ages and until about the end of the 18th cent., the condition of roads in Europe discouraged the use of wheeled vehicles, and travel by land was regul...
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