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- adjective
Prototypical ; preceding the proper beginning of something
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Packets truncated because of a limited snapshot are indicated in the output with ` ` [| proto] '', where proto is the name of the proto col level at which the truncation has occurred.
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True if the packet is an IP multicast packet. ip6 multicast True if the packet is an IPv6 multicast packet. ether proto protocol True if the packet is of ether type proto col.
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He presents a sequence of “three principal stages in the development of human thinking,” which he calls proto-logical, empirico-logical and logical.
The Muse in the Machine David Gelernter 1994
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The three of them even built a smaller, early-version of the Fenton Portal during this time, which they called the proto-portal.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2009
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Sequence in proto-RNA comes about as the result of random jostling of molecules.
Attached to Strings 2009
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Sequence in proto-RNA comes about as the result of random jostling of molecules.
Attached to Strings 2009
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Both * - kuel - "to marry" and * - tol - "to take, carry, receive, marry," verbs of very early Bantu origins, continued to name marriage unions in proto-Ruvu societies. 110 Some time in the early second millennium, speakers of descendant East-Ruvu languages innovated the meaning "to marry" from a different proto-Savanna-Bantu verb, * - sola, that had previously meant "to choose."
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Primary among the cultivating tools proto-Ruvu people used were * - témò, axes; * - gèmbè, hoes; * - wiwi, rakes; and digging sticks, which in proto-Ruvu were termed * - hananga and, later, in proto-East Ruvu * - hakwa.
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Contemporaneously, closer to the coastal regions of central Tanzania, a distinct development came about in proto-East Ruvu communities.
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Though they share a common language ancestor in proto-Northeast-Coastal Bantu, Swahili evolved into a distinct language from its proto-Sabaki ancestor along Kenya's southern coast.
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