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special-purpose devices like microwave ovens and remote controls, and factory devices like industrial robots. Computers are at the core of general-purpose devices...

two or three rows. The equivalent classification in Europe is MPV (multi-purpose vehicle) or M-segment. Compared with a full-size van, most minivans are...

BASIC (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages designed for ease of use. The...

the meaning of life?" (or the related "Why are we here?" or "What is the purpose of existence?"). There have been many proposed answers to these questions...

supercomputing sectors. Other specialized classes of operating systems (special-purpose operating systems), such as embedded and real-time systems, exist for many...

In either case, the processor(s) used may be types ranging from general purpose to those specialized in a certain class of computations, or even custom...

or emergency situations in countries that have inherited their special purpose units from the now-defunct Soviet security agencies. As spetsnaz is a Russian...

general-purpose computers. Thus most database systems nowadays are software systems running on general-purpose hardware, using general-purpose computer...

ideas through the senses. Works of art can be explicitly made for this purpose or interpreted on the basis of images or objects. For some scholars, such...

addressed by dedicated address registers (see stack machine). General-purpose registers (GPRs) can store both data and addresses, i.e., they are combined...

Mitrailleuse d'Appui Général, English: General Purpose Machine Gun) is a Belgian 7.62 mm general-purpose machine gun, designed in the early 1950s at Fabrique...

An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides a myriad of services related to accessing, using, managing, or participating in the...

According to Greek mythology, the Chimera, Chimaera, or Chimæra (/kaɪˈmɪərə, kɪ-/ ky-MEER-ə, kih-; Ancient Greek: Xίμαιρα, romanized: Chímaira, lit. 'she-goat')...

Orthodox Judaism and orthodox Sunni Islam hold that for all practical purposes veneration should be considered the same as prayer; Orthodox Judaism (arguably...

mid-1960s, the U.S. Army had tried to modernize, through replacing the larger, purpose-built Dodge M37s by militarized, "commercial off the shelf" (COTS) 4×4...

specialized to a particular application domain. This is in contrast to a general-purpose language (GPL), which is broadly applicable across domains. There are a...

terms are now applied more broadly to uses of water and wind power for purposes other than milling. More recently, the Unifine mill, an impact-type mill...

Orion (Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle or Orion MPCV) is a partially reusable crewed spacecraft used in NASA's Artemis program. The spacecraft consists...

of any country are typically called spetsnaz, an acronym for "special purpose". In the United States, the term special forces often refers specifically...

A dual-purpose gun is a naval artillery mounting designed to engage both surface and air targets. Second World War-era capital ships had four classes...