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FastAn asynchronous communications protocol used to quickly transmit files over high-quality lines. Error checking is done after the entire file has been transmitted. fast 1. Sport (of a playing surface, running track, etc.) conducive to rapid speed, as of a ball used on it or of competitors playing or racing on it 2. Photog a. requiring a relatively short time of exposure to produce a given density b. permitting a short exposure time 3. Cricket (of a bowler) characteristically delivering the ball rapidly
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When the Political Pull had arrived, the Ox said: "My good friend, please make fast to me, and let nature take her course. Besides this he has to learn to wear a collar, a crupper, and a breeching, and to stand still while they are put on; then to have a cart or a chaise fixed behind, so that he cannot walk or trot without dragging it after him; and he must go fast or slow, just as his driver wishes. Alice never could quite make out, in thinking it over afterwards, how it was that they began: all she remembers is, that they were running hand in hand, and the Queen went so fast that it was all she could do to keep up with her: and still the Queen kept crying 'Faster |
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