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points classification — noun A competition held as part of a cycling stage race in which the riders are awarded points depending on how high they finish in each of the separate stages. The leader in the competition wears a special points jersey. Cp: mountains… … Wiktionary
Special relativity — (SR) (also known as the special theory of relativity or STR) is the physical theory of measurement in inertial frames of reference proposed in 1905 by Albert Einstein (after considerable contributions of Hendrik Lorentz and Henri Poincaré) in the … Wikipedia
Special Air Service — (SAS) Regiment Période 1er juillet 1941 Pays Royaume Uni Branche Armée de terre britannique Rôle Forces spéciales, contre terrorisme Fait partie de United Kingdom Special Forces (UKSF) Garnison … Wikipédia en Français
Special Economic Zones of the People's Republic of China — Special Economic Zones A map showing the locations of the Special Economic Zones Simplified Chinese 经济特区 … Wikipedia
Spécial Air Service — Special Air Service Insigne de béret du SAS. Le SAS (abréviation de Special Air Service) est une unité de forces spéciales des forces armées britanniques, créée en 1941 par le lieutenant David Stirling avec des volontaires britanniques. Cette… … Wikipédia en Français
Special measures — is a status applied by Ofsted and Estyn, the schools inspection agencies, to schools in England and Wales, respectively, when it considers that they fail to supply an acceptable level of education and appear to lack the leadership capacity… … Wikipedia
special situation — ➔ situation * * * special situation UK US noun [C] FINANCE ► used to refer to a company involved in a takeover or that is in financial difficulty, especially in relation to investors who hope to profit from this: »Lifted by some special… … Financial and business terms
Special Tasks — Special Tasks: The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness A Soviet Spymaster is the autobiography of Pavel Sudoplatov, who was a member of the intelligence services of the Soviet Union who rose to the rank of major general; when it was published in 1994 … Wikipedia
Special cases of Apollonius' problem — In Euclidean geometry, Apollonius problem is to construct all the circles that are tangent to three given circles. Limiting cases of Apollonius problem are those in which at least one of the given circles is a point or line, i.e., is a circle of… … Wikipedia
SPECIAL (role-playing system) — [ Fallout Tactics character creation uses the SPECIAL system.] SPECIAL is a character creation and statistics system developed specifically for the Fallout franchise of computer role playing games. SPECIAL is an acronym, representing the seven… … Wikipedia
