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firefly

1. any nocturnal beetle of the family Lampyridae, common in warm and tropical regions, having luminescent abdominal organs
2. any tropical American click beetle of the genus Pyrophorus, esp P. noctiluca, that have luminescent thoracic organs
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firefly

[′fīr‚flī]
(invertebrate zoology)
Any of various flying insects which produce light by bioluminescence.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

Firefly

(1) A feature of Amazon's smartphone. See Fire Phone.

(2) A software-based media server for Windows, Mac and Linux that shares iTunes, M3U and PLS playlists to DAAP clients across the network. Noted for the variety of formats it supports, Firefly handles MP3, AAC, WMA, Ogg-Vorbis, FLAC and Apple Lossless audio files. Formerly called mt-daapd (multithreaded-DAAP daemon), Firefly uses Bonjour to announce itself over the network. See DAAP, Bonjour and playlist.
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Besides that, Firefly will hold a corporate social responsibility programme this September in conjunction with World Clean-up Day 2019.
Firefly provides connections to various points within Malaysia, Southern Thailand, Singapore, and Indonesia.
Data from the Forestry Bureau shows that Taiwan boasts 56 out of the approximately 2,000 firefly species in the world.
If the company fails to accomplish these three goals in 2019, the "board's composition will need to change," Firefly wrote in a letter to the Gulfport board.
In the EdisonReport, Elco Van Groningen, Senior Press Office Manager for Signify, stated, "We want to be the lighting company in IoT, so the expertise from Firefly LiFi will help accelerate our developments.
Launched in 2013, Firefly Press has consistently punched above its weight with prize listings including the Branford Boase Award in 2016 for the best first children's novel Aubrey And The Terrible Yoot by Horatio Clare and, most recently, a shortlisting for this year's Blue Peter Book Award with The Clockwork Crow by Catherine Fisher.
According to Radio Pakistan ,the novel 'A Firefly in the Dark' was published this year that features the life of a young girl with the twists of supernatural elements as the tales narrated by her grandmother mingle into reality.
Aside from the tree at Mall of Asia, Firefly also lights up trees at SM City North Edsa and Ayala Cebu, the Christmas installations at Tiendesitas (Ortigas East), Bradco Avenue, Aseana City and Ayala Circuit Makati.
Firefly LiFi made the announcement at the Broadband World Forum tradeshow in Berlin, Germany, where it is displaying the company's SecureLink LiFi solutions with Teleconnect GmbH (booth C112; Hall 22a).
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