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  • 61hazard — [13] The word hazard was introduced to English as the name for a game played with dice. It was borrowed from Old French hasard, which came via Spanish azar from Arabic azzahr, earlier al zahr ‘luck, chance’. Its associations were thus from the… …

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  • 62Hazard (game) — Hazard is an Old English game played with two dice which was mentioned in Geoffrey Chaucer s Canterbury Tales in the 14th century. The name hazard derives from the Arabic word az zahr (زهر) which is a translation of the plural dice . Hazard is… …

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  • 63Hazard and operability study — Hazard and operability studies are a methodology for identifying and dealing with potential problems in industrial processes, particularly those which would create a hazardous situation or a severe impairment of the process. It is commonly known… …

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  • 64Hazard (Kentucky) — Hazard Ciudad de los Estados Unidos …

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  • 65Hazard Stevens — après la Guerre de Sécession. Hazard Stevens (9 juin 1842 11 octobre 1918) était un officier de l’armée américaine, un alpiniste, un politicien et un écrivain américain. Il reçut la Medal of Honor pour ses actions au sein de… …

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  • 66Hazard table — Hazard Haz ard (h[a^]z [ e]rd), n. [F. hasard, Sp. azar an unforeseen disaster or accident, an unfortunate card or throw at dice, prob. fr. Ar. zahr, z[=a]r, a die, which, with the article al the, would give azzahr, azz[=a]r.] 1. A game of chance …

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  • 67Hazard's Pavilion — (demolished in 1906) Hazard s Pavilion was a large auditorium in Los Angeles, California, located at the intersection of Fifth and Olive Streets. Showman George Roundhouse Lehman had planned to construct a large theatre center on the land he… …

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  • 68Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points — (HACCP) is a systematic preventive approach to food safety and pharmaceutical safety that addresses physical, chemical, and biological hazards as a means of prevention rather than finished product inspection. HACCP is used in the food industry to …

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  • 69Hazard (Nebraska) — Hazard Villa de los Estados Unidos …

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  • 70hazard model — hazard model, proportional hazard model A statistical technique for determining ‘hazard functions’, or the probability that an individual will experience an event (for example first employment) within a particular time period, given that the… …

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