A point source is a single identifiable localised source of something. A point source has negligible extent, distinguishing it from other source geometries...
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A point source of pollution is a single identifiable source of air, water, thermal, noise or light pollution. A point source has negligible extent, distinguishing...
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Look up point source in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A point source is a localised, relatively small source of something. Point source may also refer...
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from a large area. It is in contrast to point source pollution which results from a single source. Nonpoint source pollution generally results from land...
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community are developed Sources of law, the materials and processes out of which law is developed Source of a morphism Source, a point where the divergence...
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A point mutation is a genetic mutation where a single nucleotide base is changed, inserted or deleted from a DNA or RNA sequence of an organism's genome...
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The Source is an American hip hop and entertainment website, and a magazine that publishes annually or semiannually. It is the world's longest-running...
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A source-to-source translator, source-to-source compiler (S2S compiler), transcompiler, or transpiler is a type of translator that takes the source code...
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information science and information technology, single source of truth (SSOT) architecture, or single point of truth (SPOT) architecture, for information systems...
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The point spread function (PSF) describes the response of a focused optical imaging system to a point source or point object. A more general term for...
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sustain combustion. Neither flash point nor fire point depends directly on the ignition source temperature, but ignition source temperature is far higher than...
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source, or non-point source, or NPS, is a source that does not come from a single point. Point source, contrasts with nonpoint source Nonpoint source...
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Point source water pollution comes from discrete conveyances and alters the chemical, biological, and physical characteristics of water. In the United...
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software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose. Open-source software may be developed in a collaborative, public manner. Open-source software is...
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Water pollution (section Pollution from point sources)
provided by the water resource. Sources of water pollution are either point sources or non-point sources. Point sources have one identifiable cause, such...
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Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code...
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Free and open-source software (FOSS) is software that is available under a license that grants the right to use, modify, and distribute the software, modified...
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created by any light source after impinging on an opaque object. Assuming no diffraction, for a collimated beam (such as a point source) of light, only the...
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Source is a 3D game engine developed by Valve. It debuted as the successor to GoldSrc in 2004 with the releases of Half-Life: Source, Counter-Strike: Source...
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IEEE 802.2 (redirect from Source Service Access Point)
LLC Header consist of DSAP (Destination Service Access Point), SSAP (Source Service Access Point) and the Control field. The two 8-bit fields DSAP and...
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Messier 87. Quasars (short for "quasi-stellar radio source") were one of the first point-like radio sources to be discovered. Quasars' extreme redshift led...
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Arago spot (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
that light behaves as a wave. The basic experimental setup requires a point source, such as an illuminated pinhole or a diverging laser beam. The dimensions...
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articles associated with the title Source language. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article...
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Inverse-square law (category CS1 Latin-language sources (la))
from the source of that physical quantity. The fundamental cause for this can be understood as geometric dilution corresponding to point-source radiation...
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converging toward the focus. Conversely, a spherical wave generated by a point source placed in the focus is reflected into a plane wave propagating as a collimated...
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Kirchhoff's diffraction formula (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
Consider a monochromatic point source at P0, which illuminates an aperture in a screen. The intensity of the wave emitted by a point source falls off as the inverse...
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Holography (category CS1 Japanese-language sources (ja))
each point in the object acts as a point source of light so the recording medium can be considered to be illuminated by a set of point sources located...
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Shadow (section Point and non-point light sources)
blocking the light. A point source of light casts only a simple shadow, called an "umbra". For a non-point or "extended" source of light, the shadow is...
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articles associated with the title Sourcing. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article...
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property of an optical system which focuses a single point source in one phase optics space into a single point in image space. Two such points are called a stigmatic...
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