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transport

[trans′pȯrt (verb), ′tranz‚pȯrt (noun)]
(computer science)
To convey as a whole from one storage device to another in a digital computer.
(engineering)
Conveyance equipment such as vehicular transport, hydraulic transport, and conveyor-belt setups.
(naval architecture)
A ship designed to carry military personnel from one place to another. Also known as troop ship.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

transport

To move or copy from one location to another. Same as "transfer." In the physical world, "to transport" means "to move" (take this from here and put it there). In the electronic world, "to transport" means "to copy" the data to another location. The original data are still intact in the first location until they are purposely deleted. See transport layer and OSI model.
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In the present study, the total leucocyte, neutrophil, and monocyte numbers in lactating cows transported over 200 km for 4 h were significantly higher than those of the NTG at each experimental time.
Cargoed goods from river and maritime transport decreased by 2.7% on an annual basis as a result of less freight transported by sea transport.
Compared to the fourth quarter of last year, the amount of transported goods in road freight transport increased by 24.6 percent, and decreased by 19.8 percent in rail transport and by 14.3 percent in cargo transport.
In second place was sea transport which accounted for 26.5% of total imports transported, down from 38.7% in the previous month and 39.3% in August last year while air transport accounted for 7.4% of total imports transported up from 6.3% in the previous month and 5.1% in the corresponding period of 2012.
It usually consists of three main parts: firstly, the freight is transported to departure freight station of intermodal transport from the door of shipper; secondly, the freight is taken over and transported by one transport mode and another transport mode, till the freight is transported to the freight destination station; thirdly, the freight is transferred and delivered to the consignee.
Using this type of transport management, single-mode road freight transport is no longer taken as the starting point, but instead freight to be transported can be handled by road, rail, and/or inland waterways.
Since its launch on 09/09/2009 till March 10, the Metro has transported about 12 million passengers with a daily average of around 80,000 commuters.
--transport price is lower if only trailer is transported, and even lower if an exchangeable truck case is transported.
The study identified the top five types of VRRD most frequently collected by road maintenances staff as tires treads at 84 percent; garbage from waste haulers at 50 percent; lumber and construction materials at 39 percent; transported gravel, soil and tree limbs at 32 percent and mufflers and exhaust parts at 26 percent.
They had no interest in the facilitation of transport as such at a time when a change of mode meant dealing not only with a container but with its contents, the goods transported. Intermodal transport networks were not, and are not, rejected on grounds of inefficiency but because the interests of the dominant actors favoured, and still favour, monomodal solutions
Is the media being transported during hurricane season on the East coast or the Gulf Coast?
Very strict criteria on the suitability of a patient to be transported are followed.
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