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Enhanced Fujita Scale
The Enhanced Fujita Scale is a tornado damage‑based intensity scale adopted in the United States in 2007, employing 28 damage indicators and eight degrees of damage to rate tornadoes from EF0 to EF5; Canada adopted a version in 2013.
Search Engine Optimization
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the practice of enhancing website visibility in search engine results through technical, content, and authority improvements, guided by Google's Search Essentials and industry best practices.
IUCN Red List
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is a global inventory assessing extinction risk, founded in 1964 and maintained by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. It provides standardized categories, quantitative criteria, and up‑to‑date assessments for over 172,600 species worldwide.
Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace (1815–1852) was an English mathematician best known for her 1843 notes on Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine, including a procedure to compute Bernoulli numbers. She is widely regarded as the first computer programmer and an early theorist of general-purpose computation.
Nikola Tesla
Serbian‑American inventor and electrical engineer (1856–1943) noted for developing alternating‑current power systems, the induction motor, and the Tesla coil, and for pioneering wireless technologies. His work with Westinghouse helped electrify the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair and Niagara Falls, shaping modern power transmission.
Proxy server
A proxy server is an intermediary that receives client requests and forwards them to other servers, often adding functions such as access control, caching, or protocol translation. Proxies are used for performance, security, policy enforcement, privacy, and architectural isolation across networks and applications.
Anschluss
Anschluss refers to the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany in March 1938. Executed through military pressure, a coerced change of government, and a retroactive plebiscite, it violated interwar treaties and initiated rapid Nazification and persecution within Austria.
Silicon dioxide
Silicon dioxide (SiO2), also called silica, is an inorganic compound composed of silicon and oxygen that occurs widely in nature, most notably as the mineral quartz and as the principal constituent of sand. It underpins major industries including glassmaking, construction, microelectronics, and optics, and exists in both crystalline polymorphs and amorphous forms such as fused silica.
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