DIN

Deutsches Institut für Normung e.V. (DIN, the German Institute for Standardization) is a German national organization for standardization. DIN and mini-DIN connectors are familiar to computer users all over the world, but DIN issues standards in any conceivable area. One of the oldest and surely most popular is DIN 476, specifying paper sizes since 1922. It became an international norm. DIN is a registered association (e.V.), founded in 1917, originally as Normenausschuss der deutschen Industrie (NADI, sta ...

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• DIN - DIN standard designation
• DIN - Example of DIN standards

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Traditionally, the hyphen has been used in several ways: Except for noun-noun and adverb-adjective compound modifiers, when a compound modifier appears before a term, the compound modifier is generally hyphenated in order to prevent any possible misunderstanding, such as light-blue paint, twentieth-century invention, cold-hearted person, and award-winning show. Without the hyphens, there is potential confusion about whether "light" applies to "blue" or "paint", whether "twentieth" applies to "c ...

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Hyphen, Hyphen - Rules and customs of usage, Hyphen - Examples of usage, Hyphen - Origin and history of the hyphen, Hyphen - Hyphens in computing, Hyphen - International Standard dates

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Some strong examples of semantic changes caused by the placement of hyphens: Disease causing poor nutrition, meaning a disease that causes poor nutrition, and Disease-causing poor nutrition, meaning poor nutrition that causes disease. A man-eating shark is a carnivorous fish, while a man eating shark is a carnivorous male human. New age-discrimination rules, meaning new rules regarding discrimination according to age, and New ...

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Hyphen, Hyphen - Rules and customs of usage, Hyphen - Examples of usage, Hyphen - Origin and history of the hyphen, Hyphen - Hyphens in computing, Hyphen - International Standard dates

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In medieval times and the early days of printing, when fonts all resembled Old English, the predecessor of the comma was a slash. As the hyphen ought not to be confused with this, a double-slash was used, this resembling an equals sign tilted like a slash. Writing forms changed with time, and included the full development of the comma, so the hyphen could become one horizontal stroke. However, publishers of dictionaries liked that a tilted symbol would give them a little extra room in their books. Those dictionaries based on the secon ...

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Hyphen, Hyphen - Rules and customs of usage, Hyphen - Examples of usage, Hyphen - Origin and history of the hyphen, Hyphen - Hyphens in computing, Hyphen - International Standard dates

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Continental Europeans use the hyphen to delineate parts within a written date. Germans and Slavs also used roman numerals for the month; 14‑vii‑1789, for example, is one way of writing the first Bastille Day, though this usage is rapidly falling out of favour. Plaques on the wall of the Moscow Kremlin are written this way. Usage of hyphens, as opposed to the slashes used in the English language, is specified for international standards. The International Standard ISO 8601, which was accepted by both the Germans as DIN 5008 ...

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Hyphen, Hyphen - Rules and customs of usage, Hyphen - Examples of usage, Hyphen - Origin and history of the hyphen, Hyphen - Hyphens in computing, Hyphen - International Standard dates

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In the ASCII character encoding, the hyphen was encoded as character 45. Technically, this character is called the hyphen-minus, as it is also used as the minus sign and for dashes. In Unicode, this same character is encoded as U+002D so that Unicode remains compatible with ASCII. However, Unicode also encodes the hyphen and minus separately, as U+2010 ( ‐ ) and U+2212 ( − ), respectively, along with a series of dashes. Usage of the hyphen-minus character is discouraged where possib ...

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Hyphen, Hyphen - Rules and customs of usage, Hyphen - Examples of usage, Hyphen - Origin and history of the hyphen, Hyphen - Hyphens in computing, Hyphen - International Standard dates

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apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ ) brackets ( ( ) ) ( [ ] ) ( { } ) ( 〈 〉 ) colon ( : ) comma ( , ) dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― ) ellipsis ( … ) ( ... ) exclamation mark ( ! ) full stop/period ( . ) hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ ) interrobang ( < ...

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• Hyphen - Rules and customs of usage
• Hyphen - Examples of usage
• Hyphen - Origin and history of the hyphen
• Hyphen - Hyphens in computing
• Hyphen - International Standard dates

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ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange), generally pronounced [ˈæski], is a character encoding based on the English alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that work with text. Most modern character encodings have a historical basis in ASCII. ASCII was first published as a standard in 1967 and was last updated in 1986. It currently defines codes for 33 non-pr ...

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• ASCII - Overview
• ASCII - History
• ASCII - ASCII control characters
• ASCII - ASCII printable characters
• ASCII - Structural features
• ASCII - Aliases for ASCII
• ASCII - Variants of ASCII

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A 19-inch rack is a standardized (EIA 310-D, IEC 60297 and DIN 41494 SC48D) system for mounting various electronic modules in a "stack", or rack, 19 inches (482.6 mm) wide. Equipment designed to be placed in a rack is typically described as rack-mount, a rack mounted system, a rack mount chassis, subrack, or occasionally, simply shelf. Because of their origin as mounting systems for telephone switching equipment, they are still sometimes called relay racks, but the 19-inch rack format h ...

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Biodiesel is fuel made from renewable resources such as vegetable oils or animal fats. It is biodegradable and non-toxic, and has significantly fewer emissions than petroleum-based diesel (petro-diesel) when burned. Biodiesel functions in current diesel engines, and is a possible candidate to replace fossil fuels as the world's primary transport energy source. With a flash point of 150 °C, Biodiesel is classified as a non-flammable liquid by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. This property makes a vehicle fuele ...

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• Biodiesel - History
• Biodiesel - Fuel quality standards and properties
• Biodiesel - Production
• Biodiesel - Base oils
• Biodiesel - Efficiency and economic arguments
• Biodiesel - Availability
• Biodiesel - Australia
• Biodiesel - Brazil
• Biodiesel - Belgium
• Biodiesel - Canada
• Biodiesel - Germany
• Biodiesel - India
• Biodiesel - United States

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Biodegradation is the decomposition of organic material by microorganisms. It is often used in relation to sewage treatment, environmental remediation (bioremediation) and to plastic materials although biodegradation is perhaps better regarded as the closing of the loop commencing with photosynthesis. Whereas photosynthesis is the process of creating growing matter through the conversion of carbon dioxide (CO2) and water (H2O) into plant material through the action of sunlight, biodegradation is the process of converting organic materials back into CO

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Audio and video connector - Audio. Audio connectors are electrical connectors designed and used for audio frequencies. They can be analogue or digital. Common audio connectors include: RCA connectors, also known as phono connectors or phono plugs, used for analog or digital audio or analog video XLR connectors, also known as Cannon plugs, used for analog or digital balanced audio with a balanced line TRS connectors (tip-ring-sleeve jack plug ...

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• Audio and video connector - Audio
• Audio and video connector - Video
• Audio and video connector - Composite

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A weighting filter is used to emphasise or suppress some aspects of a phenomenon compared to others, for measurement or other purposes. Weighting filter - Audio applications. In each field of audio measurement, special units are used to indicate a weighted measurement as opposed to a basic physical measurement of energy level. For sound, the unit is the phon (1 kHz equivalent level). Weighting filter - Loudness measurements. In the measurement of loudness, for exam ...

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• Weighting filter - Audio applications
• Weighting filter - Loudness measurements
• Weighting filter - Telecommunications
• Weighting filter - Environmental noise measurement
• Weighting filter - Audio reproduction and broadcasting equipment
• Weighting filter - Other applications of weighting

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An ingredient used in many foods, flour is a fine powder made from cereals or other starchy food sources. It is most commonly made from wheat, but also maize (aka corn), rye, barley and rice, amongst many other grasses and non-grain plants (including many Australian species of acacia). Flour is the key ingredient of bread, which is the staple food in many countries, and therefore the availability of adequate supplies of flour has often been a major economic and political issue. Flour can also be made from legumes and nuts, such as soy, peanuts, almonds, and other tree nuts. Flour is always based on the presence o ...

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• Flour - Types of flour
• Flour - Wheat flour
• Flour - Other flours
• Flour - Flour type numbers
• Flour - Flour production
• Flour - History
• Flour - Flour products

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Connectors for supplying direct current (DC) power are poorly standardized compared to domestic AC power plugs and sockets. DC plug is a common name used for one common type of cylindrical two-conductor plug available in a range of sizes and used to power small pieces of electronic equipment. It is also used to describe some older multi-pin plugs. Several competing standards exist for DC plugs, and in some cases incompatible plugs will fit together, or can be made to fit, possibly damaging equipment if: the voltage ...

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• DC connector - Cylindrical types
• DC connector - Generic types
• DC connector - EIAJ Standards
• DC connector - RadioShack Adaptaplug Conversion Matrix
• DC connector - Snap and Lock DC Power Connectors
• DC connector - Anderson Powerpole Connectors
• DC connector - Cigarette lighter sockets and plugs
• DC connector - Other DC connectors
• DC connector - Summary

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The IEC is made up of members, called national committees, and each NC represents its nation's electrotechnical interests in the IEC. This includes manufacturers, providers, distributors and vendors, consumers and users, all levels of governmental agencies, professional societies and trade associations as well as standards developers from national standards bodies. National committees are constituted in different ways. Some NCs are public sector only, some are a combination of public and private sector, and some are private sec ...

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International Electrotechnical Commission, International Electrotechnical Commission - Membership

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To deal with the consequences of substantial overlap in areas of standardization and work related to information technology, ISO and IEC formed a Joint Technical Committee known as the ISO/IEC JTC1. It was the first such committee, and to date remains the only one. Its official mandate is: Develop, maintain, promote and facilitate IT standards required by global markets meeting business and user requirements concerning: design and development of IT systems and tools, performance and quality of IT products and sys ...

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International Organization for Standardization, International Organization for Standardization - ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1

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165 convertible Spider models were produced among the 1,426 Daytonas in total. Five of these were lightweight competition models with aluminium bodywork and 450 bhp DIN (331 kW). Because of the exclusivity of the production run, a number of the more common (relatively speaking) coupes have been converted to spyders in independent shops. ...

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Ferrari Daytona, Ferrari Daytona - 365 GTS/4, Ferrari Daytona - 365 GTC/4, Ferrari Daytona - 365 GT4 2+2

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Diving regulator - Constant flow. In constant-flow regulators the first stage is constant flow, and the second stage is a plain on/off valve. (In a blowtorch the first stage is fastened to the cylinder and the second stage is on the torch head.) They are the earliest type of breathing set regulator. They are used now in many rebreathers. The only control the diver has is to open or close the second stage. Constant flow valves in an open-circuit breathing set consume gas less economically than demand valve r ...

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Diving regulator, Diving regulator - Fastening the regulator to the cylinder or cylinder block, Diving regulator - A-clamp, Diving regulator - DIN fitting, Diving regulator - Pressure gauge, Diving regulator - Standard type, Diving regulator - Button gauges, Diving regulator - Air integrated computers, Diving regulator - Mechanical reserve valves, Diving regulator - Types of first stage, Diving regulator - Piston type, Diving regulator - Diaphragm type, Diving regulator - Risk of the regulator becoming blocked with ice, Diving regulator - Types of last stage, Diving regulator - Not present, Diving regulator - Manually operated by a button or lever or knob, Diving regulator - Operated by a solenoid, Diving regulator - Demand valve, Diving regulator - Arrangements of the assembly of valves, Diving regulator - Types of regulator, Diving regulator - Constant flow, Diving regulator - Twin-hose, Diving regulator - Twin-hose home-made, Diving regulator - Two stage single hose, Diving regulator - First stage valve, Diving regulator - Pressure relief valve, Diving regulator - Second stage valve, Diving regulator - Performance of regulators, Diving regulator - Links to Manufacturers

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The present number plate format, used since 1994, uses black print on a white background and first provides information about the country where the car is registered within the European Union. German license plates show a D (for Deutschland) on the blue strip on the left, which shows the European Union's flag, yellow stars in a circle on blue ground. After that, there are between one and three letters which show the city or region where the car is registered, such as B for Berlin. These units usually coincide with the German districts, in few cases an urban district and t ...

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German car number plates, German car number plates - Format, German car number plates - Prohibited combinations, German car number plates - Typeface, German car number plates - Special codes, German car number plates - Insurance plates, German car number plates - Emission safety test and registration sticker

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