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>This article focuses on water as it is experienced in everyday life. See water (molecule) for information on the chemical and physical properties of pure water (H2O, hydrogen oxide). Water (from the Old English word wæter; c.f German "Wasser", from PIE *wod-or, "water") is a tasteless, odorless, and nearly colorless (it has a slight hint of blue) substance in its pure form that is essential to all known forms of life and is known also as the most universal solvent. Water is an abundant substance on Earth. It exists in many places and forms: mostly in the oceans and polar ice caps, but also as clouds, rain water, rivers, freshwater aquifers, and sea ice. On the planet, water is continuously moving through the cycle involving evaporation, precipitation, and runoff to the sea. See more at Wikipedia.org...

ote Operations Service Element (ROSE) is a sub-layer of protocol layer six (presentation layer) in the OSI seven layer model which provides SASE for remote operations.It is "a very general client-server mecanism, which hides from the application programmer the existence of a communication between processes; it can ask the remote application to execute operations or to collect results and errors; each interface's operation is described with ASN.1 as an information object of the OPERATION class; ROSE provides a common and standardized method for carrying requests and answers laying by specific gaps in the APDU to be filled in dynamically during communication" - From the freely available book "ASN.1 - Communication between heterogeneous systems", by Olivier Dubuisson See more at Wikipedia.org...

>For other uses, see Octopus (disambiguation). 14 in two suborders, see text. The octopus is a cephalopod of the order Octopoda that inhabits many diverse regions of the ocean, especially coral reefs. The term may also refer to only those creatures in the genus Octopus. In the larger sense, there are 289 different octopus species, which is over one-third the total number of cephalopod species. See more at Wikipedia.org...