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catalogue

(US), catalog
1. a book, usually illustrated, containing details of items for sale, esp as used by mail-order companies
2. US and Canadian a publication issued by a university, college, etc., listing courses offered, regulations, services, etc.
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catalog

[′kad·əl‚äg]
(computer science)
All the indexes to data sets or files in a system.
The index to all other indexes; the master index.
To add an entry to an index or to build an entire new index.
A list of items in a data storage device, usually arranged so that a particular kind of information can be located easily.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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The average catalog costs much less than a dollar to produce, including printing, mailing, rental of prospect names, and expenses for an outside mailing house.
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In this paper we have considered two catalogs of earthquakes to analysis and report on the spatial and temporal homogeneity and completeness of the local catalog, the local catalog referred from the PMD (Pakistan Metrological Department) and the Global Catalog of National Earthquake Information Centre (NEIC) of U.S.A.
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Whether retailers currently stock commercial and industrial inventory in their store or they're looking for a way to expand their business into the commercial and industrial sector without necessarily stocking the products, Orgill's catalog programs can offer the opportunity to appeal to this customer with thousands of SKUs.
The more than 17 billion catalogs delivered to doorsteps annually in the United States require 53 million trees, or about 4 million tons of paper.
A study performed by Environmental Defense in collaboration with Catalog Choice examines the impact of junk mailings.
The Kompozitor catalog, which is an independent catalog resulting from the decentralization of music publishing since 1991, includes many useful pedagogical works, as well as concert music by younger composers.
Sponsored nationally by Time Inc., International Paper, Verso Paper and the National Recycling Coalition (NRC), ReMix is working to increase the rate of magazine and catalog recycling in its project areas.

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