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apply

[uh-plahy] / əˈplaɪ /






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The precious metal is applied as silver paste to form busbars—solid metal strips that conduct electricity.

From The Wall Street Journal

That applies both to the flash memory chips that store photos and videos, called NAND, as well as the memory used to run apps quickly, called DRAM.

From The Wall Street Journal

Legal analysts have raised questions about the government’s approach, noting that the federal law cited by prosecutors, designed to protect access to religious services, has rarely been applied to journalists.

From Salon

When magnetic fields were applied, that growth period became much shorter, sometimes lasting less than a minute, and the resulting particles remained smaller.

From Science Daily

This tendency toward disorder also applies at the molecular scale and is described by a property known as entropy.

From Science Daily