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Opal Dream Opal Dream (also known as Pobby and Dingan) is a 2006 Australian drama film, based on the Ben Rice's novella Pobby and Dingan, directed by Peter Cattaneo and starring an ensemble cast including Vince Colosimo, Jacqueline McKenzie, Christian Byers and Sapphire Boyce. It was filmed on location around South Australia, in Adelaide, Coober Pedy and Woomera.
Opal Whiteley Opal Whiteley (December 11, 1897—February 16, 1992) was a nature writer and diarist whose childhood journal was first published in 1920 as The Story of Opal. The diary was reprinted with a biography and forward by Benjamin Hoff in 1994.
Opalescence Opalescence is a type of dichroism seen in highly dispersed systems with little opacity. The material appears yellowish-red in transmitted light and blue in the scattered light perpendicular to the transmitted light.
Opalescent Inshore Squid The Opalescent Inshore Squid (Loligo opalescens) is a small squid (mantle length (ML) up to 160mm) in the family Loliginidae. It is a myopsid squid, which is the near shore group and that means that they have corneas over their eyes.
Opalchentsi Opalchentsi (опълченци) are Bulgarian voluntary army units, who took part in the Serbo-Turkish War of 1876 and the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878). The people in these units were called opalchenets-pobornik (опълченец-поборник) meaning volunteer combatant.
Opaline The opalines are a small group of peculiar protists, found as endosymbionts in the gut of frogs and toads. Each cell has two or more nuclei (hundreds in some species), and is covered in short flagella, arranged in rows.
Opaline glass Opaline glass is a decorative style of glass made in France from 1800 to the 1890s, though it reached its peak of popularity during the reign of Napoleon III in the 1850s and 1860s. The glass is opaque or slightly translucent, and can appear either white or brightly colored in shades of green, blue, pink, black, lavender and yellow.
Opallionectes Opallionectes andamookaensis (meaning the "the opal swimmer from Andamooka") is the name given to a 5 m (16 ft) long plesiosaur, which is thought to have lived during the early Cretaceous period (Lower middle Aptian), 115 million years ago, in shallow seas covering what is now Australia.
Opanak Opanak (Serbian Cyrillic: Опанак, plural: опанци, opanci) are a kind of traditional shoes worn in Serbia. The attributes of the Opanci are; a construction of leather, lack of laces, durable, and have horn-like ending on toes.
Opaque pointer In computer programming, an opaque pointer is a datatype that hides its internal implementation using a pointer. This allows the implementation of the whole interface to change without the need to recompile the modules using it.
Opaque predicate In computer programming, an opaque predicate is a predicate—an expression that evaluates to either "true" or "false"—for which the outcome is known by the programmer a priori, but which, for a variety of reasons, still needs to be evaluated at run time. Opaque predicates have can be used as watermarks, as it will be identifiable in a program's executable.
Oparara Basin Arches The Oparara Basin Arches are a number of natural limestone tunnels formed by the Oparara River in New Zealand. The two most famous ones are the 'Oparara Arch', large enough for a multi-story house, and the 'Moria Gate Arch', smaller in height, but also an impressive, beautiful place (various places in the area have The Lord of the Rings-inspired names).
Opasniye Povoroty Opasniye Povoroty, also known as Naughty Curves [English], was the first dramatic film shot in the Soviet-designed Kinopanorama format. The screenplay concerns the love of two rival motorcycle drivers for one of two twin-sisters.
Opata language Ă’pata (Also Eudeve, Heve, Dohema) is the name of the Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Opata people of northern central Sonora in Mexico. It was believed to be dead already in 1930, and Carl Sofus Lumholtz reported thepata to have become "Mexicanized" and lost their language and customs already when travelling through Sonora in the 1890'es, but in a recent (1993) survey by the Mexican Instituto Nacional Indigenista (Now INALI) fifteen people in the Mexican Federal District self identified as speakers of Ă’pata- this may not mean however that the language is actually living, since linguistic nomenclature in Mexico is notoriously fuzzy.
Opata people The Opata ("enemies", so called by their neighbors the Pimas) were a tribe of Mexican Indians of Piman stock. Their country is the mountainous district of north-eastern Sonora and northwestern Chihuahua, Mexico.
OpatĂłwek OpatĂłwek (German: Spatenfelde) is a village of 3800 inhabitants situated 10 km south-east from Kalisz, county (Powiat) of Kalisz County in the province of Wielkopolska, Poland. The commune (Gmina) of OpatĂłwek, including the village of OpatĂłwek and 26 other villages, has about 10 000 inhabitants and is an agricultural and industrial region.
Opava Opava (-Czech, German: Troppau, Polish: Opawa) is a city in the northern Czech Republic on the Opava river. The historical capital of Czech Silesia, Opava is now in the Moravian-Silesian Region and has a population of 59,843 as of January 1 2005.
Opéra bouffe Opéra bouffe (plural, opéra bouffes) is a genre of late 19th century French operetta, closely associated with Jacques Offenbach, who produced many of them at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens that gave its name to the form.
Opéra Bastille L’Opéra de la Bastille (Bastille Opera) is a modern opera house in Paris, France. It is the home base of the Opéra National de Paris and was designed to replace the Palais Garnier, but that did not happen and operas are still given in that house, which is also used for ballet performances.
Opéra comique Opéra comique (plural, opéra comiques) is a French genre of opera that contains spoken dialogue. It emerged out of the popular vaudevilles of the Fair Theatres of St Germain and St Laurent (and to a lesser extent the Comédie-Italienne).
Opéra de Marseille L’Opéra de Marseille, known today as the Opéra Municipal, is an opera company located in Marseille, France. In 1685, the city was the second in France after Bordeaux to have an opera house which was erected on a tennis court.
Opéra féerie Opéra féerie (plural, opéra féeries) is a French genre of opera or opéra-ballet based on fairy tales, often with elements of magic in their stories. Popular in the 18th century, from the time of Jean-Philippe Rameau onwards, the form reached its culmination with works such as La belle au bois dormant by Michele Carafa and Cendrillon by Nicholas Isouard at the beginning of the 19th century.
Opéra Nouvel The Opéra Nouvel (Nouvel Opera House) in Lyon, France is the home of the Opéra National de Lyon. The original opera house was re-designed by the distinguished French architect, Jean Nouvel between 1985 and 1993 and is named after him.
Opéra-Comique The Opéra-Comique is an opera company and opera house in Paris. It is located Place Boieldieu, in the IIe arrondissement of Paris, near the Paris Stock Exchange and not far from the Opera Garnier, home of the Académie Royale de Musique.
Opération Daguet Opération Daguet (French for Brocket Deer) was the codename for French operations during the 1991 Gulf War (also called the Persian Gulf War or Operation Desert Storm). The conflict was between Iraq and a coalition force of approximately 30 nations led by the United States and mandated by the United Nations in order to liberate Kuwait.
Opération Lamantin Opération Lamatin was a December 1977-July 1978 military intervention by France on the behalf of the Mauritanian government, in its war against Sahrawi guerrilla fighters of the Polisario Front, seeking independence for Western Sahara.
Opération Nez rouge Opération Nez rouge (literally, "Operation Red Nose"), founded in 1984, is an escorting service offered in Quebec and several francophone countries under several names as well as in the English speaking parts of Canada under the name Operation Red Nose during the Christmas holiday season.
OpciĂł k-95 OpciĂł k-95 is Catalan streetpunk band formed in Barcelona in September of 1995. The original line up for the band was Carles (vocals), Daniel (bass) and RaĂĽl (drums), but in few months Marc (guitar) and LluĂ­s (guitar) came forming band's final line up.
Opee Sea Killer A fictional creature in the Star Wars Universe, The opee, sometimes referred to as an opee sea killer, was a large sea creature of approximately twenty meters in length; a hybrid of crustacean and fish, that inhabited the watery planet core of Naboo.
Opechee Bay Opechee Bay is a 427-acre lake located in Belknap County in the Lakes Region of central New Hampshire, United States, in the city of Laconia. It is located directly downstream from Paugus Bay and Lake Winnipesaukee, and it connects by a one-mile segment of the Winnipesaukee River through the center of Laconia to Winnisquam Lake.
Opekta Opekta was a business run from 1933 to 1953 by Anne Frank's father Otto Frank, which distributed a pectin-based gelling preparation, to be used in jam making. It traded from the building in which they hid from persecution during the Nazi Occupation of the Netherlands.
Opel Antara The Opel Antara is a mid-size crossover SUV, which is based on the GM Theta platform. It is closely related to the Chevrolet Captiva (made in Korea by GM Daewoo, also sold as the Daewoo Winstorm), and shares the engine lineup with it, but has a different exterior and interior, as well as different exterior dimensions. The Antara is scheduled to be launched towards the end of 2006. In the UK, the model will be sold as Vauxhall Antara. In Australia, this will be the top model of the Captiva lineup of the Holden brand, called Captiva MaXX. In the United States and Canada, the vehicle is known as the second generation Saturn VUE.
Opel Astra The Opel Astra is a small family car produced by Opel, a subsidiary of General Motors. It is branded as an Opel in continental Europe, Japan, the Republic of Ireland, the Middle East, North Africa, South Africa, and India; Vauxhall in the United Kingdom, Holden in Australasia, and Chevrolet in Latin America.
Opel Astra Cabrio The Opel Astra Cabrio is a cabriolet designed by Opel and built since 2001 by Italian coachbuilder Bertone. The Astra Cabrio is badged Opel in Germany and The Republic of Ireland, Vauxhall in the United Kingdom, and Holden in Australia.
Opel Calibra The Opel Calibra (badged as a Vauxhall in the UK, Holden in Australia and New Zealand and Chevrolet in South America) was launched in 1989, a front-wheel drive coupé based around the running gear of the Opel Vectra A, (Cavalier under the Vauxhall name), but with a different rear suspention, which had been launched the year before.
Opel Corsa The Opel Corsa is a supermini that has been produced by General Motors' European subsidiary Opel since 1983. It has also been sold under a variety of other brands (most notably Vauxhall, Chevrolet , Holden and soon, Saturn) and names and spawned various derivatives in different markets, all of which are listed in appropriate sections below.
Opel Frogster The Opel Frogster was a 2001 concept car created by General Motors' German brand, Opel. The Frogster could be transformed from a convertible to a roadster or a pickup truck by using a built-in PDA mounted between the two front seats.
Opel Kadett The Opel Kadett is a small family car produced by the German automaker Opel between 1937 and 1940, then from 1962 to 1992. Production facilities of the pre-war Kadett were transported to Russia after WW II, and thus this early Kadett formed the basis for the Moskvitch 400/420.
Opel Meriva The Opel Meriva is a mini MPV based on the platform of the third generation Opel Corsa and sold under that name on all of the European markets with the exception of the UK, where it is called the Vauxhall Meriva. It is also sold in Mexico and Argentina under the Chevrolet marque.
Opel Movano The Opel/Vauxhall Movano is a mid-sized commercial vehicle sold in Europe from year 1999 and underwent its first facelift in late 2003. The vehicle is available in a wide range of variants, including a choice of three wheelbases, three roof heights and three gross vehicle weights.
Opel Performance Center The Opel Performance Center (abbreviated as OPC) is a subsidiary of General Motors' German Opel subsidiary, founded in 1997 to oversee Opel's motorsports activities and develop performance versions of Opel vehicles. It performs a similar role to Holden's HSV unit, but it is even more similar to Ford's American Special Vehicle Team.
Opel Sintra The Opel Sintra is a large MPV manufactured by General Motors for the European market (in the United Kingdom under the Vauxhall Sintra nameplate) between 1996 and 1999. The Sintra is one of the second generation U-body MPVs (known internally as GMX110s).
Opel Speedster The Opel Speedster is a roadster produced from 2001 to 2005 by Lotus for General Motors's subsidiary Opel and was also badged as Vauxhall VX220 for the UK market. Both cars have a lot in common with the Lotus Elise and they are characterized by strong performance and superb handling.
Opel Tigra The Opel Tigra is a sports car produced by Opel (a subsidiary of General Motors Corporation) based on its Corsa supermini. It was originally available as a small coupé, produced from 1994 to 2000, with a new roadster model introduced in 2004.
Opel Vivaro The Opel Vivaro – sold in the United Kingdom as the Vauxhall Vivaro – is a medium-sized light commercial vehicle (LCV or PKW) originally launched in 2001, and is available in panel van, minibus, combined bus/van and platform-cab configurations. Two wheelbases and two roof heights are available, as well as three diesel engines and a petrol engine.
Opelika, Alabama Opelika is a city in Lee County in east central Alabama. It is the county seat of Lee County and is a principal city, along with Auburn, Alabama, in the Auburn-Opelika, Alabama Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA).
Opelit Mopetta The Opelit Mopetta was an egg-shaped, single seat, three wheeled microcar designed by Egon Brütsch, who also designed the Spatz Kabinenroller, in 1957 as Brütsch Mopetta using a 50 cc engine and an open roadster type glass fiber body.
Open (band) Open is an indie Australian Pop/rock band consisting of singer Gabrielle Rogers (sister of You Am I front man Tim Rogers), guitarist Daniel Pugliese (Rainhouse) and drummer Pete Neville (Resin Dogs, Trout Fishing In Quebec) as well as Paul Bianco and bass guitarist Jack Friels (son of actors Colin Friels and Judy Davis).
Open (magazine) Open is a monthly Mexican lifestyle magazine published by Editorial Metrosexual. Founded in 2005, the magazine covers different topics in each issue, such as art, cars, travel, restaurants, sex, gadgets and every other subject related to trendy men.
Open (sport) An Open in sports terminology refers to a sporting event or game tournament that is open to all people, regardless of their age, ability, gender, or other categorization. Opens are usually found in golf, tennis, squash and chess.
Open (system call) In most modern operating systems, a program that needs access to a file stored in a filesystem uses the open system call. This system call allocates resources associated to the file (the file descriptor), and returns a handle that the process will use to refer to that file from then on.
Open access Open access (OA) means free online access to digital scholarly material[– primarily peer-reviewed research papers, but extending also to other digital content that authors wish to make freely available to all users online. OA was first made possible by the advent of the Internet].
Open access (publishing) Open access publishing is the publication of material in such a way that it is available to all potential users without financial or other barriers. An open access publisher is a publisher producing such material.
Open access journal Open access journals are scholarly journals that are available to the reader "without financial or other barrier other than access to the internet itself." Some are subsidized, and some require payment on behalf of the author.
Open access publishing Open access publishing is the publication of material in such a way that it is available to all potential users without financial or other barriers. An open access publisher is a publisher producing such material.
Open adoption Open adoption is a term generally used to describe a variety of arrangements allowing for ongoing contact between members of the 'adoption triad' (adoptive family, biological family, and adopted child). The level of openness in any relationship varies widely.
Open and affirming Open and Affirming (ONA) is an official designation churches and other bodies within the United Church of Christ denomination may choose to adopt to declare gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgendered persons (LGBT) full inclusion in life and ministry of that UCC body.
Open architecture Open architecture is a type of computer architecture or software architecture that allows adding, upgrading and swapping components. For example, the IBM PC has an open architecture, whereas the Amiga 500 home computer had a closed architecture, where the hardware manufacturer chooses the components, and they are not generally upgradable.
Open Access Network In telecommunications, Open Access Network (OAN) refers to horizontally layered network architecture and business model that separates physical access to the network from service provisioning. The same OAN will be used by a number of different providers that share the investments and maintenance cost.
Open Access Same-Time Information System The Open Access Same-Time Information System (OASIS), is an Internet-based system for obtaining services related to electric power transmission in North America. It is the primary means by which high-voltage transmission lines are reserved for moving wholesale quantities of electricity.
Open Air Campaigners Open Air Campaigners (OAC) is an evangelistic ministry of preaching the gospel to lost people and mobilizing the body of Christ primarily through effective open-air preaching. This international ministry includes meetings in urban areas, at camp sites, beaches, residential and anywhere people can be found.
Open All Hours Open All Hours was a BBC sitcom written by Roy Clarke which ran for four series (26 episodes in all) between 1976 and 1985, with a pilot episode from the Seven of One series in 1973. In 2004, the series was voted eighth in Britain's Best Sitcom.
Open Architecture System Integration Strategy In the late 1980s, Apple Computer was increasingly worried about the legion of graphical user interfaces about to be released that would compete with the Mac OS. In addition to improved versions of Microsoft Windows, which had previously been unsuccessful, they were now facing IBMs Presentation Manager, HP's NewWave, Sun Microsystems' OpenLook, and a host of other X11-based GUIs on various Unix platforms.
Open Archives Initiative The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) is an attempt to build a "low-barrier interoperability framework" for digital archives (aka "institutional repositories") containing digital content (aka "digital libraries"). It allows people (Service Providers) to harvest metadata (from Data Providers).
Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) is a protocol developed by the Open Archives Initiative. It is used to harvest (or collect) the metadata descriptions of the records in an archive so that services can be built using metadata from many archives.
Open Arms (song) "Open Arms" is a song originally recorded by American rock band Journey and written by Steve Perry and Jonathan Cain, two of the band's members. It is a ballad depicting the struggle of lovers who are trying to reconcile by starting anew with "open arms".
Open Artwork System Interchange Standard Open Artwork System Interchange Standard (OASIS™) is a specification for hierarchical integrated circuit mask layout data format for interchange between EDA software, IC mask writing tools and mask inspection tools.
Open Aviation Area The Open Aviation Area is the aspirational name given to the Community Air Transport Agreement between the EU member states and the United States. The expectation is that this agreement will replace the various bilateral Air Service Agreements between the Member States and the USA, some of which are currently based on the Open skies-model.
Open bolt A semi or fully automatic firearm is said to fire from an open bolt if, when ready to fire, the bolt and working parts are held to the rear. When the trigger is pulled the bolt goes forward, feeding a round from the magazine into the chamber and firing it.
Open book decomposition In mathematics, an open book decomposition (or simply an open book) is a decomposition of a closed oriented 3-manifold M into a union of surfaces (necessarily with boundary) and solid tori. Open books have relevance to contact geometry, with a famous theorem of Emmanuel Giroux (given below) that shows that contact geometry can be studied from an entirely topological viewpoint.
Open business Open business is in general the concept of doing business in a transparent way by intimately integrating an ecosystem of stake holders and abiding by a model of transparency. The Open Society Institute and others are funding a project to investigate open business models at the OpenBusiness web site.
Open Back-End In software, an Open Back-End is a piece of functionality which is used by various Front-End applications. For example, the Open Back-End might be a big number crunching Server which is used by various customers which each have their own bespoke Front end, API or GUI.
Open Bible Standard Churches The Open Bible Standard Churches are an association of Pentecostal Protestant churches, with an office in Des Moines, Iowa. The organization is affiliated with the National Association of Evangelicals, the Pentecostal/Charismatic Churches of North America, and the Pentecostal World Conference.
Open Biomedical Ontologies Open Biomedical Ontologies (formerly Open Biological Ontologies) is an effort to create controlled vocabularies for shared use across different biological and medical domains. As of 2006, OBO forms part of the resources of the National Center for Biomedical Ontology, where it will form a central element of the NCBO's BioPortal.
Open Brethren The Open Brethren, sometimes called Christian Brethren or "Plymouth Brethren", are a group of Protestant Evangelical Christian churches that arose in the late 1820s as part of the Assembly Movement. They originated in England and Ireland and now have many assemblies world wide.
Open city In war, in the event of the imminent capture of a city, the government/military structure of the country that owns the city will sometimes declare it an open city, thus announcing that they have abandoned all defensive efforts. The attacking armies of the opposing military will then be expected not to bomb or otherwise attack the city, but simply to march in.
Open class (linguistics) In linguistics, an open class (or open word class) is a word class that accepts the addition of new items, through such processes as compounding, derivation, coining, borrowing, etc. Typical open word classes are nouns, verbs and adjectives.
Open class system An open class system is the stratification that facilitates social mobility, with individual achievement and personal merit determining social rank. The hierarchical social status of a person is achieved through their effort.
Open classroom An open classroom is a student-centered classroom design format popular in the United States in the 1970s. In its most extreme form, entire schools were built without walls, which made teaching loudly disruptive.
Open cluster An open cluster is a group of up to a few thousand stars that were formed from the same giant molecular cloud, and are still loosely gravitationally bound to each other. In contrast, globular clusters are very tightly bound by gravity.
Open communion Open communion is the practice of Christian churches that allow individuals other than members of that church to receive communion (also called the Eucharist or the Lord's Supper). The phrasing and exact requirements in a particular local church may vary, but membership in a particular Christian community is not required.
Open compensation plan An open compensation plan (or system or policy) is one with a defined pay scale and no rules about keeping employee pay confidential. Open compensation plans are noted for reducing employee [example of an organization with an open compensation system is the [[U.
Open constituencies (Fiji) Open constituencies represent one of several electoral models employed in the past and present in the Fijian electoral system. They derive their name from the fact that they are "open": unlike the communal constituencies, the 25 members of the House of Representatives who represent open constituencies are elected by universal suffrage and are open to members of any ethnic group.
Open Canada Cup The Open Canada Cup is a Canadian soccer competition, similar in concept (but not in prestige) to tournaments such as the FA Cup and the Coppa Italia. The competition is ostensibly open to all professional and amateur soccer teams in Canada, but in practice is only entered by the teams of the Canadian Soccer League (formerly the Canadian Professional Soccer League) and a handful of amateur teams from Ontario.
Open City (magazine) Open City Magazine and Books is a New York City based magazine and book publisher that is known to feature many first-time writers alongside those who are well known. Thomas Beller and Daniel Pinchbeck founded the magazine in 1990, and were soon joined by Robert Bingham, who later founded the book series in 1999.
Open Clip Art Library The Open Clip Art Library (acronym OCAL) project aims to create a collection of vector clip art that can be used for free for any use. The project was started in early 2004, and as of September 2005 it incorporates over 6500 images from over 500 artists, and offers the entire library as a free download.
Open Communication Open Communication, or Open Access to Communication resources, is a special case of open access publishing, a concept which is used in many contexts, including access to immaterial as well as physical assets, such as intellectual property rights and physical communication links.
Open Conference Systems Open Conference Systems (OCS) is conference management software, designed to manage the entire conference organizing process, create a conference web site, review submissions, register attendees, and index and share the resulting proceedings. It is open source, released under the GNU General Public License.
Open Constitutional Initiative The Open Constitutional Initiative (OCI) is an organization in the People's Republic of China that advocates the rule of law and greater constitutional protections. On 8 June 2004, Chinese internet authorities shut down its web site without specifying a precise reason.
Open Content License The Open Content License (OPL) is a license designed for distribution of open content material. This license is not compatible with the GFDL in that it does not allow the Open Content License licensed material, or derivation of such material to be sold in a commercial packaging, (ie.
Open Content Project The Open Content Project was a project dedicated to creating Open content. Primarily designed for academics, the project's Open Publication License can easily be adapted to the needs of the artist or other content provider.
Open de España The Open de España (formerly the Spanish Open) is the national open golf championship of Spain and is held in San Roque Golf Club. It was founded in 1912 and has been part of the European Tour's schedule since the inception of the Tour in 1972.
Open de France The Open de France is a European Tour golf tournament. Inaugurated in 1906 it is the oldest national open in Continental Europe and has been part of the European Tour's schedule since the tour's inception in 1972.
Open design Open design is the application of open source methods to the creation of physical products, machines and systems. People apply their skills and time to projects for the common good, perhaps where funding or commercial interest is lacking, for developing countries or to help to spread ecological or cheaper technologies.
Open Data Open Data is a philosophy and practice requiring that certain data are freely available to everyone, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control. It has a similar ethos to a number of other "Open" movements and communities such as Open Source and Open Access.
Open Data-Link Interface The Open Data-Link Interface (ODI), developed by Apple and Novell, serves the same function as Microsoft and 3COM's Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS). Originally, ODI was written for NetWare and Macintosh environments.
Open Database Connectivity In computing, Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) provides a standard software API method for using database management systems (DBMS). The designers of ODBC aimed to make it independent of programming languages, database systems, and operating systems.
Open Desktop Workstation The Open Desktop Workstation, also referred to as ODW is a PowerPC based computer, by Austin-based Genesi. The ODW has an interchangeable CPU card allowing for a wide range of Power Architecture based microprocessors from IBM and Freescale Semiconductor.
Open DeviceNet Vendors Association Open DeviceNet Vendors Association (ODVA) is an international organization that supports computing network technologies based upon the Common Industrial Protocol (CIP). These include DeviceNet, EtherNet/IP, CIP Safety and CIP Sync.
Open Directory License The Open Directory License is a license for open content used by the Open Directory Project. It is like many open source licenses, which are used for many types of software and sometimes its corresponding documentation.

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