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A system of pooling a fraction of each wager into a cumulative fund that is available for a top-pay win. A game that increments the prize amount based on player participation. The three kinds of progressives are Wide Area, Local Area, and Stand Alone.
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are terms that refer to the proportionality of taxes on income. A tax is called proportional if it takes the same fraction of income from low income people as it does from high income people. (Unemployment Insurance payments and Canada Pension payments up to the maximum earnings level are examples of proportional taxes). A progressive tax is one that takes a greater proportion of income from high income people than from those with low incomes (income tax, for example). ...
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A game-improvement mechanism seen in iron sets - where the hosel offset is increased incrementally as the clubs get longer. Increased offset in longer irons improves Center of Gravity location, helping golfers achieve solid impact with the more difficult-hitting, lower lofted clubs. Where alignment is of more importance (in the shorter scoring clubs and wedges), offset is reduced or absent. See Offset (Hosel), above.
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Video capture or display by scanning such that a frame contains a complete image. Each frame contains a complete picture and uses more bandwidth than interlace scanning. Your home computer scans progressively which is why DVD movies look better on a computer than on a conventional television, which is interlace.
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