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general-purpose

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  1. not limited in use or function

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  • Here, we present a general-purpose scheme that may be used as basic toolbox for straight-forward implementations of card games.
  • There are 16 general-purpose dogs, six drug dogs, four dogs trained to sniff out explosives, four to track down firearms and a passive drug dog, which screens people for drugs.
  • Before scuttlebutt that Apple was working on a tablet started to heat up, no major PC manufacturer seemed to think that consumers wanted a general-purpose, touchscreen-only computing device.
  • That is not to say general-purpose functionality and real-time determinism cannot be achieved simultaneously.
  • Mr. Sonia Herecomestheangst (sponsored by the Salmon & French Fries union) says: tombaker says: darnel buddy, sorry man. maybe try some general-purpose AOL chatrooms. Think Progress » Palin blames ‘Gore-gate’ for ‘this snake oil science stuff.’
  • She was a contemporary of Charles Babbage, who is generally credited in the history of computing with designing the first mechanical, general-purpose computer: the Analytical Engine. William E. J. Doane PhD › Celebrating Ada Lovelace Day 2010: Sally Fincher
  • He has drawn misleading analogies about how the mind might be like a computer or a general-purpose learning device.
  • An appliance is a device that provides a limited, well-defined function as compared to a general-purpose computer that can provide any function.
  • What Sony didn't know is that IBM repurposed part of the Cell design (the general-purpose processor core, or "PPE" unit) for Microsoft's Xbox 360 CPU, the Xenon. Ars Technica
  • The region's average wage is about double that of Italy for a whole, and some 45% of its GDP comes from cooperatively owned enterprises.8⁠ The salient points of this analysis concern distributed and flexible manufacturing, the use of small-scale, general-purpose machinery, the gearing of production to demand “demand-pull” rather than “supply-push”, local supply chains, and widespread worker ownership. Archive 2009-03-01
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