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			Airport - 




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A facility from which aircraft takeoff and land.
Related Terms: Airport - aircraft | airway | facility | land |
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Facility -

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Land, buildings, or an industrial complex designed and equipped to perform a specific function.
Related Terms: Facility - equipment | function | industry | land |
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Internet (1) -

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An electronic network of computers that includes nearly every university, government, and research facility in the world. Also include are many commercial sites. The Internet is the closest thing that we have the Information Superhighway. It started with four interconnected computers in 1969 and was known as ARPAnet. Reference: ECRC University of Scranton / Defense Logistics Agency
Related Terms: Internet (1) - ARPANet | communications | computer | hardware | information management | internic | markup | network | protocol | software | telecommunications | whois | world wide web |
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LogisticsWorld Acronyms: Internet (1) - ARPANet | communications | computer | hardware | information management | internic | markup | network | protocol | software | telecommunications | whois | world wide web |
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Lead Time (1) -

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A span of time required to perform an activity. In a production and inventory control context, the activity is normally the procurement of materials or product from either an outside supplier or a company's own manufacturing facility. The individual components of any given lead time can include some or Reference: ECRC University of Scranton / Defense Logistics Agency Included with permission from: Gartner Group "Information Technology Glossary" Executive Reference, 1993
Related Terms: Lead Time (1) - acquisition | contracting | inventory | logistics | manufacturing | procurement | production | purchasing | supply | support |
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Local Area Network (1) -

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A user-owned and operated data transmission facility connecting a number of communicating devices (e.g. computers, terminals, word processors, printers, and mass storage units) within a single building or campus of buildings. Acronym: LAN Reference: ECRC University of Scranton / Defense Logistics Agency Included with the permission of: Gartner Group, Inc Information Technology Glossary Executive Reference, 1993
Related Terms: Local Area Network (1) - business | computer | data | information management | internet | network | wide area network |
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Repository -

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A facility for storing descriptions and behaviors of objects in an enterprise, including requirements, policies, processes, data, software libraries, projects, platforms and personnel, with the potential of supporting both software development and operations management. A single point of definition for all system resources. Reference: ECRC University of Scranton / Defense Logistics Agency Included with permission from: Gartner Group Adapted from: "Information Technology Glossary" Executive Reference 1993
Related Terms: Repository - business | data base | document | enterprise | file | information | information management | policy | process | program | software |
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SAFE -

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Standard Authoring Facility Environment, a Safety. See Health and Safety. Acronym: SAFE Reference: Professor Derek Urwin, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, U.K., http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~pol028/index.htm
Related Terms: SAFE - international | trade |
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Shipyard -

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A facility for building or repairing ships.  Shipyard
Related Terms: Shipyard - facility | repair | ship |
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Warehouse -

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A facility for the storage and security of goods and merchandise.
Related Terms: Warehouse - facility | goods | merchandise | storage |
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Wide-Area Network -

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A data transmission facility that connects geographically dispersed sites using long-haul networking facilities. Acronym: WAN Reference: ECRC University of Scranton / Defense Logistics Agency Included with permission from: Gartner Group "Information Technology Glossary" Executive Reference 1993
Related Terms: Wide-Area Network - data | local area network | network | user network | server | value-added network | wide area information server |
LogisticsWorld Database Search: Wide-Area Network - data | local area network | network | user network | server | value-added network | wide area information server |
LogisticsWorld Acronyms: Wide-Area Network - data | local area network | network | user network | server | value-added network | wide area information server |
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