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Shortening is any fat that is a
solid at room
temperature and is used to make
crumbly pastry and
other food products. The idea of
shortening dates back...
- URL
shortening is a
technique on the
World Wide Web in
which a
Uniform Resource Locator (URL) may be made
substantially shorter and
still direct to the...
- A stretch-
shortening cycle (SSC) is an
active stretch (eccentric contraction) of a
muscle followed by an
immediate shortening (concentric contraction)...
- In mathematics, the curve-
shortening flow is a
process that
modifies a
smooth curve in the
Euclidean plane by
moving its
points perpendicularly to the...
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American brand of
shortening that is
produced by B&G Foods.
Introduced in June 1911 by
Procter & Gamble, it was the
first shortening to be made entirely...
- In linguistics, clipping, also
called truncation or
shortening, is word
formation by
removing some
segments of an
existing word to
create a diminutive...
- as most
cancer cell lines, an
enzyme might be
activated to
prevent the
shortening of DNA
termini with each cell division. In 1975–1977,
Elizabeth Blackburn...
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between repeat purchases (referred to as "
shortening the
replacement cycle"). It is the
deliberate shortening of the
lifespan of a
product to
force people...
- Spry was a
brand of
vegetable shortening produced by
Lever Brothers starting in 1936. It was a
competitor for
Procter & Gamble's Crisco, and
through aggressive...
- or a
person of
Italian descent. Meanwhile,
though it may be used as a
shortening of
greaseball to
refer to Italians,
greaser has been more
often applied...
