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Recreation› Sports

NASCAR

See Groove

Science› Biotechnology and Genetics

Food Biotechnology

Science› Energy› Renewable Energy

Solar Energy

The path, real or imagined, that the eye follows when perceiving abrupt differences in form, color, or texture. Within landscapes, lines may be found as ridges, skylines, structures, changes in vegetative types, or individual trees and branches.

Technology

GIS

  1. A set of ordered coordinates that represents the shape of geographic features too narrow to be displayed as an area at the given scale (e.g., contours, street centerlines, or streams), or linear features with no area (e.g., state and county boundary lines).
  2. A single arc in a coverage.
  3. A line on a map (e.g., a neatline).
  • City of High Point, NC — GIS Glossary retrieved 2014-05-27

Technology› Programming

Perl

In Unix, a sequence of zero or more non-newline characters terminated with a "newline" character. On non-Unix machines, this is emulated by the C library even if the underlying "operating system" has different ideas.

Technology

Telecommunications

A physical medium for transferring electrical or electromagnetic energy from one point to another for purposes of communications. 2. A land line. 3. A metallic medium used for the transmission of electrical power. 4. A transmission medium, together with the associated equipment, required to provide the means of transporting information between two consecutive network elements, one of which originates the line signal and the other terminates the line signal. 5. Synonym scanning line.

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