proprietary system

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proprietary
adjective[before noun]
uk
/prəˈpraɪə.tər.i/us
/prəˈpraɪə.ter.i/
relating to owning something, or relating to or like ...
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system
noun
uk
/ˈsɪs.təm/us
/ˈsɪs.təm/
a set of connected things or devices that ...
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The company capitalized on itsproprietarysystemfor 20 years from 1903 and had much success in getting most of the market share worldwide.
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Manufacturers use their ownproprietarysystemto encode this number with various levels of precision (i.e., a variable number of bits per servo position).
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However, the development team managed to create aproprietarysystemthat could reshuffle memory as players played through the game to solve the fragmentation.
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On the other hand, new techniques have been developed to integrate legacy and proprietary systems with new upcoming component-based applications.
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Theproprietarysysteminvolved the purchase of shares in the church by private individuals, who received in exchange a sitting (the right to own a pew).
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Some banks have modified their own bank systems or builtproprietarysystemto handle truncation, there are also a number of software companies that provide commercial solutions and services.
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Doing so would also threaten its intellectual property by requiring it to disclose the software behind itsproprietarysystem, which allows it to function without bias.
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Pixar chooses to use aproprietarysystemin lieu of the commercial products available and used by other companies because it can edit the software code to meet their needs.
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Theproprietarysystemfor off-line editing incorporates an edit controller, a video switcher, single and dual-headed laser disc players, video monitors, videotape recorders, terminal equipment and associated software.
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However, this communication which occurs within one network is less standardized and may, depending on the vendor and configuration options, use proprietary encoding or even an entirelyproprietarysystem.
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Four case studies were published in 1966 and two further studies on the use of proprietary systems are to be issued shortly.
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The peer review process is increasingly managed online, through the use of proprietary systems, commercial software packages, or open source and free software.
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All were specialized, dedicated, proprietary systems, with prices in the $10,000 ballpark.
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Many district and site technology coordinators also experience an increase in technical support problems from maintaining numerous proprietary systems.
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Proprietary systems result in buildings that needlesly waste energy.
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A few proprietary systems are used for private communications.
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These proprietary systems were fairly efficient, but rigid.
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Facial capture is currently arranging itself in several distinct camps, including traditional motion capture data, blend shaped based solutions, capturing the actual topology of an actor's face, and proprietary systems.
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Proprietary systems also incur license fees.
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