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1. Spider
   [polarimeter] Spider is a balloon-borne experiment designed to search for primordial gravity waves imprinted on the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Measuring the strength of this signal puts limits on inflationary theory. The Spider instrument consists of six degree-resolution telescopes ...
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2. spider
   (World-Wide Web) (Or 'robot', 'crawler') A program that automatically explores the World-Wide Web by retrieving a document and recursively retrieving some or all the documents that are referenced in it. This is in contrast with a normal web browser operated by a human that doesn't automatically fol...
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3. Spider
   [computer magazine] Spider written as SPIDER (written with a mirrored `R`) is a monthly magazine circulated in Pakistan by the DAWN group of newspapers, focusing on issues related to software/hardware and Internet technologies. The magazine sported a tagline boasting it to be "Pakistan`s Int...
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4. Spider
   [novel] Spider is a novel by the British novelist Patrick McGrath, originally published in the United States in 1990. Its eponymous character, birth name Dennis Cleg, is a recent arrival from a lunatic asylum to a halfway house in the East End of London-- just a few streets away, by strange ...
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5. Spider
   [drink] NASA Image eXchange (NIX) http://mix.msfc.nasa.gov/IMAGES/MEDIUM/8915493.jpg ...
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6. Spider
   [children`s television series] Simplified block diagram of a vector network analyzer ...
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7. Spider
   [British comics] The Spider is a British comic book character who began as a supervillain before becoming a superhero. He appeared in Lion between 26 June 1965 and 26 April 1969 and was reprinted in Vulcan. He was created by writer Ted Cowan and artist Reg Bunn. Superman co-creator Jerry Sie...
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8. Spider
   person or computer program that searches the web for new links and link them to search engines
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9. Spider
   see Robot.
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10. spider
    [n] - a computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database 2. [n] - a skillet made of cast iron 3. [n] - predatory arachnid that usually has silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body
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11. spider
    a circular steel device that holds slips supporting a suspended string of drill pipe, casing, or tubing. A spider may be split or solid.
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12. Spider
    An Internet robot (used by a search engine) that explores the Web at large. Spiders collect Web page addresses based on content found at those pages.
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13. Spider
    Series of flail devices [US], NATO codename for soviet SSM
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14. spider
    star handle on captan lathes for returning the tool Category: Mechanical engineering • structural heart of propeller or helicopter rotor in form of hub integral with radial members which bear all stresses from attached blades Category: Transport • a structure supporting the c...
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15. Spider
    Software used by search engines to gather web addresses by visiting web sites on the WWW.
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16. Spider
    Spi'der noun [ Middle English spiþre , from Anglo-Saxon spinnan to spin; -- so named from spinning its web; confer Dutch spin a spider, German spinne , Swedish spindel . Seee Spin .] 1. (Zoolo...
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17. spider
    1. <zoology> Any one of numerous species of arachnids comprising the order Araneina. Spiders have the mandibles converted into poison fangs, or falcers. The abdomen is large and not segmented, with two or three pairs of spinnerets near the end, by means of which they spin threads of silk to fo...
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18. spider
    wanderer noun a computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine
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19. spider
    noun predatory arachnid that usually has silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body; they spin silk to make cocoons for eggs or traps for prey
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20. spider
    noun a skillet made of cast iron
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21. spider
    (spi´dәr) an arthropod of the class Arachnida. In the United States, the two spiders whose bites are most likely to cause a serious reaction are the black widow spider and the brown recluse spider spider angioma. arterial spider spider angioma. bla...
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22. Spider
    • (n.) Any one of numerous species of arachnids comprising the order Araneina. Spiders have the mandibles converted into poison fangs, or falcers. The abdomen is large and not segmented, with two or three pairs of spinnerets near the end, by means of which they spin threads of silk to form coco...
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23. spider
    any of about 38,000 species of arachnids that differ from the insects in having eight legs rather than six and in having the body divided into two ... [12 related articles]
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24. Spider
    See: SPDRs
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25. Spider
    See SPDR. Discover What It`s Like to Live Easy With EquiTrend
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