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| A DISCRETE UNIT MADE OF MATTER CONSISTING OF CHARGED PARTICLES. |
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| A NEGATIVELY CHARGED PARTICLE THAT ORBITS THE NUCLEUS OF AN ATOM. |
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| A PURE SUBSTANCE COMPOSED OF ATOMS, EACH WITH THE SAME NUMBER OF PROTONS. |
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| AN ATOM OF A SPECIFIC ELEMENT WITH THE CORRECT NUMBER OF ELECTRONS AND PROTONS BUT A DIFFERENT NUMBER OF NEUTRONS. |
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| A SPECIFIC SUBSTANCE MADE UP OF ELEMENTS THAT ARE BONDED TOGETHER. |
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| A SUBATOMIC PARTICLE LOCATED IN THE NUCLEUS OF THE ATOM. IT HAS NO ELECTRICAL CHARGE. |
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| A GASEOUS STATE IN WHICH THE ATOM'S NUCLEUS BECOMES SEPARATED FROM THE ELECTRONS. |
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| A STATE OF MATTER IN WHICH THE MOLECULES ARE BONDED VERY TIGHTLY. |
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| THE PHYSICAL FORMS OF MATTER. |
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| IN ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ENERGY, THE HEIGHT OF A WAVE. |
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| THE MATHEMATICAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE WEIGHT AND VELOCITY OF A MASS. |
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| A SET OF HYPOTHESES CONCERNING THE BEHAVIOR OF OBJECTS IN MOTION, PROPOSED BY SIR ISAAC NEWTON IN THE 1600S |
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| POWER OR FORCE GENERATED BY VARIOUS TYPES OF NATURAL OCCURRENCES. |
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| IN PHYSICS, THE PUSHIING OR PULLING OF OBJECTS. |
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| IN PHYSICS, THE NUMBER OF WAVES THAT PASS A POINT IN ONE SECOND. |
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| THE BEHAVIOR OF A WAVE WHEN IT REACHES A NONABSORBENT MATERIAL. |
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| IN PHYSICS, A NATURALLY OCCURRING PHENOMENON IN WHICH ENERGY IS TRANSMITTED IN THE FORM OF PEAKS AND TROUGHS. |
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| A TYPE OF ELECTRICAL CURRENT IN WHICH ELECTRICITY CHANGES DIRECTION TO COMPLETE ITS CIRCUIT. |
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| A UNIT MEASURING THE AMOUNT OF ENERGY PASSING A GIVEN POINT IN A STATED PERIOD OF TIME. |
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| THE PATH OF FREE ELECTRONS AS THEY MOVE THROUGH CONDUCTIVE MATERIAL. |
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| THE RELATIVE ABILITY OF A SUBSTANCE TO TRANSMIT FREE ELECTRONS OR ELECTRICITY. |
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| A TYPE OF LOW VOLTAGE ELECTRICAL CURRENT IN WHICH ELECTRONS FLOW IN ONE DIRECTION TO COMPLETE A CIRCUIT. |
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| IN ELECTRICAL CIRCUITS, THE GROUND WIRE IN A PLUG OR RECEPTACLE CAPTURES CURRENT THAT HAS ESCAPED FROM ITS INTENDED PATHWAY AND DISCHARGES IT INTO THE GROUND. |
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| A SUBSTANCE THAT DOES NOT CONDUCT ELECTRICAL CURRENT AND IS USED TO PREVENT ELECTRICITY FROM SEEING AN ALTERNATE PATH. |
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| AN OUTLET IN AN ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT THAT RECEIVES A PLUG CONTAINING LIVE CURRENT, COMPLETING THE CIRCUIT. |
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| IN ELECTRICITY, THE MEASUREMENT OF A SUBSTANCE'S ABILITY TO CONDUCT ELECTRICITY. |
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| THE ELECTRICAL FORCE IN A CIRCUIT, MEASURED AS THE AMOUNT OF FORCE THAT PASSES A GIVEN POINT OVER A STATED PERIOD. |
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| LIGHT WAVES WHICH ARE LINED UP SO THAT THE TROUGHS AND PEAKS ARE MATCHED. |
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| IN PHYSICS, THE NAME GIVEN TO A LIGHT PARTICLE. |
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| IN OPTICS, THE ABILITY OF LIGHT TO PASS THROUGH A SUBSTANCE. |
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| THE TRANSFER OF HEAT FROM ONE SUBSTANCE TO ANOTHER BY THE NATURAL MOVEMENT OF MOLECULES, WHICH SETS OTHER MOLECULES IN MOTION. |
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| THE EFFECT PERCEIVED WHEN THE ORIGIN OR RECEIVER OF SOUND WAVES MOVES. |
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| CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT (CPU) |
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| THE COMPONENT OF A COMPUTER THAT CONTAINS THE CIRCUITRY, MEMORY, AND POWER CONTROLS. |
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| THE COMPONENT OF A COMPUTER'S CPU WHERE MOST OF THE DATA ARE STORED, INCLUDING INFO THE COMPUTER USES TO OPERATE. |
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| DATA STORAGE DEVICE WHICH IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE COMPUTER. |
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| A NETWORK OF COMPUTERS THAT ARE CONNECTED BY WIRES, FIBEROPTIC CABLES, OR SATELLITE SIGNALS. |
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| THE ELECTRONIC CONTROLLER OF ALL THE DATA THE COMPUTER NEEDS TO PERFORM TASKS. |
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| RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY; THE MEMORY CAPACITY OF A COMPUTER. |
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| IN GRAPHICS-BASED COMPUTER PLATFORMS, A HORIZONTAL OR VERTICAL BLOCK THAT CONTAINS SMALL PICTURES OR MENUS THAT ACTIVATE TASKS. |
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| IN COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY, A NETWORK OF LINKS TO DATA VIA ON INTERNET SYSTEM. |
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