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๐Ÿ”— List of screw drives

๐Ÿ”— Technology ๐Ÿ”— Canada ๐Ÿ”— Guild of Copy Editors ๐Ÿ”— Engineering

A screw drive is a system used to turn a screw. At a minimum, it is a set of shaped cavities and protrusions on the screw head that allows torque to be applied to it. Usually, it also involves a mating tool, such as a screwdriver, that is used to turn it. The following heads are categorized based on commonality, with some of the less-common drives being classified as "tamper-resistant".

Most heads come in a range of sizes, typically distinguished by a number, such as "Phillips #00". These sizes do not necessarily describe a particular dimension of the drive shape, but rather are arbitrary designations.

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๐Ÿ”— Synecdoche

๐Ÿ”— Linguistics

A synecdoche ( sin-NEK-tษ™-kee, from Greek ฯƒฯ…ฮฝฮตฮบฮดฮฟฯ‡ฮฎ, synekdochฤ“, 'simultaneous understanding') is a figure of speech in which a term for a part of something refers to the whole of something or vice versa. A synecdoche is a class of metonymy, often by means of either mentioning a part for the whole or conversely the whole for one of its parts. Examples from common English expressions include "suits" (for "businessmen"), "boots" (for "soldiers") (pars pro toto), and "America" (for "the United States of America", totum pro parte).

The use of government buildings to refer to their occupants is metonymy and sometimes also synecdoche. "The Pentagon" for the United States Department of Defense can be considered synecdoche, as the building can be considered part of the department. Likewise, using "Number 10" to mean "the Office of the Prime Minister" (of the United Kingdom) is a synecdoche.

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๐Ÿ”— Countries with Free and Universal Healthcare

๐Ÿ”— United States/U.S. Government ๐Ÿ”— United States ๐Ÿ”— Medicine ๐Ÿ”— Economics ๐Ÿ”— Politics ๐Ÿ”— Geography

Universal healthcare (also called universal health coverage, universal coverage, or universal care) is a health care system in which all residents of a particular country or region are assured access to health care. It is generally organized around providing either all residents or only those who cannot afford on their own, with either health services or the means to acquire them, with the end goal of improving health outcomes.

Universal healthcare does not imply coverage for all cases and for all people โ€“ only that all people have access to healthcare when and where needed without financial hardship. Some universal healthcare systems are government-funded, while others are based on a requirement that all citizens purchase private health insurance. Universal healthcare can be determined by three critical dimensions: who is covered, what services are covered, and how much of the cost is covered. It is described by the World Health Organization as a situation where citizens can access health services without incurring financial hardship. The Director General of WHO describes universal health coverage as the โ€œsingle most powerful concept that public health has to offerโ€ since it unifies โ€œservices and delivers them in a comprehensive and integrated wayโ€. One of the goals with universal healthcare is to create a system of protection which provides equality of opportunity for people to enjoy the highest possible level of health.

As part of Sustainable Development Goals, United Nations member states have agreed to work toward worldwide universal health coverage by 2030.

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๐Ÿ”— Ettore Majorana

๐Ÿ”— Biography ๐Ÿ”— Physics ๐Ÿ”— Biography/science and academia ๐Ÿ”— Physics/Biographies ๐Ÿ”— Sicily

Ettore Majorana (, Italian: [หˆษ›ttore majoหˆraหna]; born on 5 August 1906 โ€“ likely dying in or after 1959) was an Italian theoretical physicist who worked on neutrino masses. On 25ย March 1938, he disappeared under mysterious circumstances after purchasing a ticket to travel by ship from Naples to Palermo.

The Majorana equation and Majorana fermions are named after him. In 2006, the Majorana Prize was established in his memory.

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๐Ÿ”— Terfenol-D

๐Ÿ”— Military history ๐Ÿ”— Military history/Military science, technology, and theory ๐Ÿ”— Chemistry

Terfenol-D, an alloy of the formula TbxDy1โˆ’xFe2 (xย โ‰ˆย 0.3), is a magnetostrictive material. It was initially developed in the 1970s by the Naval Ordnance Laboratory in United States. The technology for manufacturing the material efficiently was developed in the 1980s at Ames Laboratory under a U.S. Navy-funded program. It is named after terbium, iron (Fe), Naval Ordnance Laboratory (NOL), and the D comes from dysprosium.

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๐Ÿ”— Giffard Dirigible

๐Ÿ”— Aviation ๐Ÿ”— Aviation/aircraft

The Giffard dirigible or Giffard airship was an airship built in France in 1852 by Henri Giffard, the first powered and steerable (French: dirigeable โ€“ "directable") airship to fly. The craft featured an elongated hydrogen-filled envelope that tapered to a point at each end. From this was suspended a long beam with a triangular, sail-like rudder at its aft end, and beneath the beam a platform for the pilot and steam engine. Due to the highly flammable nature of the lift gas, special precautions were taken to minimise the potential for the envelope to be ignited by the engine beneath it. The engine's exhaust was diverted downwards to a long pipe projecting below the platform, and the area surrounding the boiler's stoke hole was surrounded by wire gauze. On 24 September 1852, Giffard flew the airship from the hippodrome at Place de l'Etoile to ร‰lancourt, covering the 27ย km (17ย mi) in around 3 hours, demonstrating maneuvering along the way. The engine, however, was not sufficiently powerful to allow Giffard to fly against the wind to make a return journey.

๐Ÿ”— Timeline of programming languages

๐Ÿ”— Computing

This is a record of historically important programming languages, by decade.

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๐Ÿ”— List of languages by time of extinction

๐Ÿ”— Lists ๐Ÿ”— Languages ๐Ÿ”— Endangered languages

This is a list of extinct languages sorted by their time of extinction. A language is determined to be an extinct when its last native or fluent speaker dies. When the exact time of death of the last remaining speaker is not known, either an approximate time or the date when the language was last being recorded is given.

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๐Ÿ”— Berlin Gold Hat

๐Ÿ”— Germany ๐Ÿ”— Archaeology ๐Ÿ”— Visual arts ๐Ÿ”— Fashion

The Berlin Gold Hat or Berlin Golden Hat (German: Berliner Goldhut) is a Late Bronze Age artefact made of thin gold leaf. It served as the external covering on a long conical brimmed headdress, probably of an organic material. It is now in the Neues Museum on Museum Island in Berlin, in a room by itself with an elaborate explanatory display.

The Berlin Gold Hat is the best preserved specimen among the four known conical golden hats known from Bronze Age Europe so far. Of the three others, two were found in southern Germany, and one in the west of France. All were found in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is generally assumed that the hats served as the insignia of deities or priests in the context of a sun cult that appears to have been widespread in Central Europe at the time. The hats are also suggested to have served astronomical/calendrical functions.

The Berlin Gold Hat was acquired in 1996 by the Berlin Museum fรผr Vor- und Frรผhgeschichte as a single find without provenance. A comparative study of the ornaments and techniques in conjunction with dateable finds suggests that it was made in the Late Bronze Age, circa 1,000 to 800 BC.

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๐Ÿ”— Vancouver Special

๐Ÿ”— Canada ๐Ÿ”— Architecture ๐Ÿ”— Canada/British Columbia ๐Ÿ”— Canada/Vancouver

The Vancouver Special is an architectural style of residential houses developed in Metro Vancouver, Canada. The style was popular in the 1960s to 1980s due to ability to maximize floor space with relatively cheap construction costs.

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