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| Domain | Definition |
Mining | In blasting, firing of a round of shots in planned sequence so that cut or relief holes are blown first. Delay-action electric detonators have largely replaced safety fuses for this purpose, successive shots beingseparated by milliseconds. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Kenya | The Government, through the CCK, continued to delay action on a number of radio and television license applications on the grounds that it was reorganizing and regularizing its licensing procedures. (references) |
Human Rights | Romania | In addition the prosecutor's office may delay action on a request for a lawyer for up to 5 days from the date of arrest. (references) |
Israel and the occupied territories | However, families of the missing IDF soldiers requested that the Government delay action on the order, and implementation of the court's decision was postponed, and had not occurred by year's end. (references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-i-l-n-o-t-y" | |
-2 letters: acylation, anecdotal, cadential, dealation, diaconate, dilatancy. | |
-3 letters: acylated, analcite, analytic, anecdota, anticold, catenoid, daltonic, delation, dentalia, diacetyl, diaconal, laitance, nodality. | |
-4 letters: acolyte, aconite, actinal, acylate, acyloin, aeolian, alation, alcaide, alcayde, aloetic, anality, anolyte, antacid, anticly, calando, canaled, candela, celadon, citadel, codeina, condyle, cotidal, ctenoid, cyanate, cyanide, cyanite, dacoity, dactyli, decanal, deltaic, deontic, dialect. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-e-i-l-n-o-t-y" | |
+2 letters: anecdotically, educationally. | |
+3 letters: platinocyanide. | |
+4 letters: coeducationally, decarboxylating, decarboxylation, platinocyanides, thermodynamical. | |
+5 letters: cladogenetically, decarboxylations, paedogenetically, undemocratically. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 45 4C 41 59 41 43 54 49 4F 4E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01000101 01001100 01000001 01011001 00100000 01000001 01000011 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D E L A Y   A C T I O N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0045 004C 0041 0059 0041 0043 0054 0049 004F 004E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38394635592353754434948 |
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