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- abbreviation single-cell protein
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- abbreviation UK, law Senior Crown Prosecutor
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Examples
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It is obviously intended to complement the term SCP and to avoid the use of the latter when referring to the complex combinations of substrate and micro-organisms that are the main concerns of this workshop.
Chapter 28 1979
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An international team of astronomers has found an object in deep space, which they call SCP 06F6, using the Hubble Space Telescope during a Cluster Supernova Survey.
Hack In The Box 2008
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An international team of astronomers has found an object in deep space, which they call SCP 06F6, using the Hubble Space Telescope during a Cluster Supernova Survey.
Hack In The Box 2008
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While supernovae normally take three weeks to reach their peak brightness (or at most 70 days), this object, called SCP 06F6, took significantly longer.
Wired Top Stories 2009
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Seattle Computer Products had a product called SCP-DOS which Gates bought and which Microsoft then completed the debugging and fine-tuning of it which resulted in the first version of the MS-DOS operating system, which would power the original IBM PC.
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As the glow was discovered during the Supernova Cosmology Project, it received a similar name, and is now known as SCP 06F6.
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The object, called SCP 06F6, was first spotted in the constellation Bootes in February 2006 in a search for supernovae by the Hubble Space Telescope.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009
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The SCP was the lowest temperature prior to the onset of freezing; this individual froze at − 4. 5°C. doi: 10.1371/journal. pone.0008259.g001
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Brent J. Sinclair et al. 2009
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Microsoft bought an operating system called SCP-DOS or QDOS (for quick and dirty operating system) that ran on the 8088 processor for $80,000 ....
Applelinks.com 2009
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With SSH, you can even run GUI applications. (the output and interface will appear on your screen instead of that of the remote machine) SSH has a companion program called SCP that allows you to send files back and forth through an encrypted tunnel.
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