| TAWS |
A Terrain Awareness and Warning System (TAWS) is a type of system which aims to prevent controlled flight into terrain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAWS.
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| RVSM compliance |
Reduced Vertical Separation Minima or Minimum (RVSM) is an aviation term used to describe the reduction of the standard vertical separation required between aircraft flying at levels between FL290 (29,000 ft.) and FL410 (41,000 ft.) from 2,000 feet to 1,000 feet (or between 8,900 metres and 12,500 metres from 600 metres to 300 metres in China).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RVSM
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| WAAS |
The Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) is an air navigation aid developed by the Federal Aviation Administration to augment the Global Positioning System (GPS), with the goal of improving its accuracy, integrity, and availability.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAAS
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| Lava Lamp |
A lava lamp (or Astro lamp) is a novelty item used more for decoration than illumination—the slow, interesting rise and fall of variously-shaped blobs of wax is suggestive of lava, hence the name. The lamps are available with a variety of styles and colors of wax and liquid.
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| Crevasse
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A crevasse is a crack in an ice sheet or glacier. Crevasses often have vertical or near-vertical walls, which can then melt and create seracs, arches, etc.; these walls sometimes expose layers that represent the glacier's stratigraphy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crevass
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| USIM |
Universal Subscriber Identity Module is an application for UMTS mobile telephony running on a UICC smart card which is inserted in a 3G mobile phone. There is a common misconception to call the UICC card itself a USIM, but the USIM is merely a logical entity on the physical card. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Subscriber_Identity_Module#USIM
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