GATE Questions

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Stalk means the main stem of a herbaceous plant.

Synonyms for Stalk are - Shoot, trunk, cane, bent, reed, straw, bine, stock,...

Rust forms when oxygen reacts with chemicals in rocks, and that is often the case with many other elements in general. Like a copper nail being exposed to the air will rust.

Monopoly is an economic term that describes a single company or entity controlling one hundred percent of the supply of a particular product. Carnegie Steel is one of the argest monopoly of steel industry during the Gilded age.

Uniform civil code is the ongoing point of debate within Indian mandate to replace personal laws based on the scriptures and customs of each major religious community in India with a common set of rules governing every citizen.

Goa is the only state in INdia where Uniform Civil Code is applied. Laws are equal to all religion. Polygamy and triple talaq are illegal. 

The compound with the molecular formula P4O10 is called Phosphorus pentoxide or tetraphosphorous decoxide. It is an anhydride of the Phosphoric acid.

Million Instructions Per Second is a method of measuring the raw speed of a computer's processor. MIPS measures roughly the number of machine instructions that a computer can execute in one second.