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  2. List of U.S. security clearance terms - Wikipedia

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    Compartments of information are identified by code words. This is one means by which the "need to know" principle is formally and automatically enforced. [citation needed] In order to have access to material in a particular SCI "compartment", the person must first have the clearance level for the material.

  3. Classified information in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Top Secret is the highest level of classification. However some information is further categorized/marked by adding a code word so that only those who have been cleared for each code word can see it. A document marked SECRET (CODE WORD) could be viewed only by a person with a secret or top secret clearance and that specific code word clearance.

  4. Cheque clearing - Wikipedia

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    Cheque clearing (or check clearing in American English) or bank clearance is the process of moving cash (or its equivalent) from the bank on which a cheque is drawn to the bank in which it was deposited, usually accompanied by the movement of the cheque to the paying bank, either in the traditional physical paper form or digitally under a cheque truncation system.

  5. Seed bank - Wikipedia

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    A seed bank (also seed banks, seeds bank or seed vault) stores seeds to preserve genetic diversity; hence it is a type of gene bank. [ 1] There are many reasons to store seeds. One is to preserve the genes that plant breeders need to increase yield, disease resistance, drought tolerance, nutritional quality, taste, etc. of crops.

  6. BIGOT list - Wikipedia

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    It is possible that the term itself, supposedly suggested by Winston Churchill, was a "backronym"—a phrase created to fit an acronym such as the existing "To Gibraltar" code. The list of personnel cleared to know details of Overlord was known as the BIGOT list, and the people on it were known as "Bigots".

  7. Clearing (finance) - Wikipedia

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    In banking and finance, clearing denotes all activities from the time a commitment is made for a transaction until it is settled. This process turns the promise of payment (for example, in the form of a cheque or electronic payment request) into the actual movement of money from one account to another. Clearing houses were formed to facilitate ...

  8. Magnetic ink character recognition - Wikipedia

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    Magnetic ink character recognition code, known in short as MICR code, is a character recognition technology used mainly by the banking industry to streamline the processing and clearance of cheques and other documents. MICR encoding, called the MICR line, is at the bottom of cheques and other vouchers and typically includes the document-type ...

  9. Cell bank - Wikipedia

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    Cell bank. A cell bank is a facility that stores cells of specific genome for the purpose of future use in a product or medicinal needs, but can also describe the entity of stored cells itself. Cell banks often contain expansive amounts of base cell material that can be utilized for various projects. Cell banks can be used to generate detailed ...