skipjack

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Meaning

An upstart.

An elater; a snap bug, or snapping beetle.

A name given to several kinds of a fish, as the common bluefish, the alewife, the bonito, the butterfish, the cutlass fish, the jurel, the leather jacket, the runner, the saurel, the saury, the threadfish, etc.

A shallow sailboat with a rectilinear or V-shaped cross section.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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For example, the cladogram illustrates that the skipjack tunas are more closely related to the true tunas than are the slender tunas (the most primitive of the tunas), and that the next nearest relatives of the tunas are the bonitos of the Sardini tribe. Source: Internet

The NSA 's Skipjack algorithm used in its Fortezza program employs 80-bit keys. Source: Internet

Small game catches continue but to a lesser degree with boats remaining closer to shore catching grouper, ladyfish, triggerfish, babosa, sheepshead, skipjack, roosterfish and one solitary wahoo weighing around 40 pounds. Source: Internet

Skipjack makes up about 60 percent of the catch, followed by yellowfin (24 percent), bigeye (10 percent), albacore (5 percent), and bluefin the remainder. Source: Internet

Last year, Orsted, the developer of the Skipjack project announced it was committed to using the GE-Haliade 12-megawatt turbines, described as the “world’s largest offshore wind turbine,” for its Skipjack project off the north end of Ocean City’s coast. Source: Internet

The PSC order for Orsted’s Skipjack project includes the exact same language with the appropriate wording changes. Source: Internet

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