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Encyclopedia > Stamp

A stamp is a distinctive mark or impression made upon an object, for instance those made on a piece of paper and used to indicate the prepayment of a fee or tax. Types of stamps include: A tax is a financial charge or other levy imposed on an individual or a legal entity by a state or a functional equivalent of a state (for example, tribes, secessionist movements or revolutionary movements). ...

A stamp can also be: A postage stamp is evidence of pre-paying a fee for postal services. ... An 1862 US 3-cent stamp used for proprietary articles A revenue stamp, tax stamp or fiscal stamp is a type of adhesive label used to collect taxes or fees on various items. ... A stamp act is a law enacted by a government that requires a tax to be paid on the transfer of certain documents such as property deeds. ... Stamp duty is a form of tax that is levied on documents. ... This article is about vulcanized rubber stamps. ...

Stamp may also refer to the manufacturing processes using Machine presses and dies. The BASIC Stamp is a microcontroller with a small, specialized BASIC interpreter (PBASIC) built into ROM. It is made by Parallax, Inc. ... The integrated circuit from an Intel 8742, an 8-bit microcontroller that includes a CPU running at 12 MHz, 128 bytes of RAM, 2048 bytes of EPROM, and I/O in the same chip. ... A stomp (also referred to as a stamp) is a martial arts and combatives term for a downwards strike with the heel of the foot. ... Power press with a fixed barrier guard A press, or a machine press is a tool used to work metal (typically steel) by changing its shape and internal structure. ... A die is a tool used in the manufacturing industry to create a wide variety of products and components. ...


Stamps is the name of a city in Arkansas. Stamps is a city located in Lafayette County, Arkansas. ...


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Stamp (182 words)
By downloading or installing Stamp, you agree not to redistribute Stamp commercially, and you agree not to hold Tempest Solutions liable in the unlikely event you encounter any problems through installation, use, or misuse of Stamp.
Stamp is an award-winning software utility that renames digital camera photos so they sort in chronological order:
Stamp extracts the date/time each photo was originally shot from camera-generated metadata, then adds a timestamp to the beginning of each filename.
Postage stamp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1965 words)
Automatenmarken, stamps issued in the denomination of the customer's choice by a kind of machine (similar to computer-vended postage) are also referred to by the acronym ATM, which has created some confusion.
perforated stamps - while this term is often used to refer to the perforations around the edge of a stamp (used to divide the sheet into individual stamps) it is also a technical term for stamps which have been additionally perforated across the middle leaving a distinctive pattern or monogram.
Stamps should be distinguished from cinderellas, stamp-like labels that resemble, but are not, postage stamps.
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