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• Body fat percentage — A person s body mass percentage is the total weight of the person s fat divided by the person s weight and consists of essential body fat and storage body fat. Essential body fat is necessary to maintain life and reproductive functions. The… …   Wikipedia

• Baker percentage — Baker percentage, sometimes called formula percentage [ How Baking Works , Paula Figoni, 2004. p9.] , is a way of indicating the proportion of ingredients when making bread. Contrary to the usual way of expressing percentages, instead of the… …   Wikipedia

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• river — river1 riverless, adj. riverlike, adj. /riv euhr/, n. 1. a natural stream of water of fairly large size flowing in a definite course or channel or series of diverging and converging channels. 2. a similar stream of something other than water: a… …   Universalium

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• Systematic error — Systematic errors are biases in measurement which lead to the situation where the mean of many separate measurements differs significantly from the actual value of the measured attribute. All measurements are prone to systematic errors, often of… …   Wikipedia