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  2. Headphones - Wikipedia

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    In radio studios, DJs use a pair of headphones when talking to the microphone while the speakers are turned off to eliminate acoustic feedback while monitoring their own voice. In studio recordings, musicians and singers use headphones to play or sing along to a backing track or band.

  3. Centimorgan - Wikipedia

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    In genetics, a centimorgan (abbreviated cM) or map unit (m.u.) is a unit for measuring genetic linkage.It is defined as the distance between chromosome positions (also termed loci or markers) for which the expected average number of intervening chromosomal crossovers in a single generation is 0.01.

  4. Repeated game - Wikipedia

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    In game theory, a repeated game (or iterated game) is an extensive form game that consists of a number of repetitions of some base game (called a stage game). The stage game is usually one of the well-studied 2-person games. Repeated games capture the idea that a player will have to take into account the impact of their current action on the ...

  5. Haircut (finance) - Wikipedia

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    In mass media, [1] [2] [3] as well as in economics texts, [4] [5] especially after the financial crisis of 2007–2008, [6] the term "haircut" has been used mostly to denote a reduction of the amount that will be repaid to creditors, [3] or, in other words, a reduction in the face value of a troubled borrower's debts, [2] [a] as in "to take a ...

  6. Female genital mutilation - Wikipedia

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    [226]: 2 The first FGM conviction in the US was in 2006, when Khalid Adem, who had emigrated from Ethiopia, was sentenced to ten years for aggravated battery and cruelty to children after severing his two-year-old daughter's clitoris with a pair of scissors. [231]

  7. Coupon collector's problem - Wikipedia

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    Graph of number of coupons, n vs the expected number of trials (i.e., time) needed to collect them all, E (T ) In probability theory, the coupon collector's problem refers to mathematical analysis of "collect all coupons and win" contests.

  8. Off-White (company) - Wikipedia

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    Off-White (stylized as Off-White c/o Virgil Abloh) is an Italian luxury fashion house founded by American designer Virgil Abloh. The company was incorporated in Milan in 2013. [ 2 ] [ 3 ]

  9. Randomness - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] A random sequence of events, symbols or steps often has no order and does not follow an intelligible pattern or combination. Individual random events are, by definition, unpredictable, but if there is a known probability distribution, the frequency of different outcomes over repeated events (or "trials") is predictable.