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- Dictionarycommander/kəˈmɑːndə/
noun
- 1. a person in authority, especially over a body of troops or a military operation: "the commander of a paratroop regiment"
- 2. a member of a higher class in some orders of knighthood.
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1 day ago · In military organizations, the practice of carrying colours, standards, flags, or guidons, both to act as a rallying point for troops and to mark the location of the commander, is thought to have originated in Ancient Egypt some 5,000 years ago. The Roman Empire also made battle standards reading SPQR a part of their vast armies.
1 day ago · PostgreSQL supports a binary communication protocol that allows applications to connect to the database server. The protocol is versioned (currently 3.0, as of PostgreSQL 7.4) and has a detailed specification. [ 46] The official client implementation of this communication protocol is a C API, libpq. [ 47]
1 day ago · I want to simulate the slm process with lammps and for this purpose I define a dynamic cylindrical region with a diameter of 5.0 nm and a height 7.0 nm with initially positioned at (x,y)=(80,80) and this region moved with constant speed 2.0 angstrom/ps in the x direction and I use this command for this region: variable dx equal 2.0 region laser cylinder z 80 80 25 112 182 move v_dx Null Null ...
1 hour ago · Apollo program. The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which succeeded in preparing and landing the first men [ 2] on the Moon from 1968 to 1972.
1 day ago · v. t. e. The United States Army ( USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces. It is one of the eight U.S. uniformed services, and is designated as the Army of the United States in the U.S. Constitution. [ 15] The Army is the oldest branch of the U.S. military and the most senior in order of precedence. [ 16]
1 day ago · The Rhodesian Bush War also known as the Second Chimurenga as well as the Zimbabwean War of Independence, [ 13] was a civil conflict from July 1964 to December 1979 [ n 1] in the unrecognised country of Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe-Rhodesia and now Zimbabwe ). [ n 2][ 24] The conflict pitted three forces against one another: the Rhodesian white ...
1 day ago · The Second Italo-Ethiopian War, also referred to as the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, was a war of aggression waged by Italy against Ethiopia, which lasted from October 1935 to February 1937. In Ethiopia it is often referred to simply as the Italian Invasion ( Amharic: ጣልያን ወረራ, romanized : Ṭalyan warära ), and in Italy as the ...