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Flood (disambiguation) — A flood is an overflow of water onto land.Flood may also refer to:Computing* Network flood, a denial of service attack on a network * Internet Relay Chat flood * Usenet flood * Flooding algorithm, a network routing algorithmFilm and television*… … Wikipedia
Flooding algorithm — A flooding algorithm is an algorithm for distributing material to every part of a connected network. The name derives from the concept of inundation by a flood.Flooding algorithms are used in systems such as Usenet and peer to peer file sharing… … Wikipedia
Flood warning — is closely linked to the task of flood forecasting. The distinction between the two is that the outcome of flood forecasting is a set of forecast time profiles of channel flows or river levels at various locations, while flood warning is the task … Wikipedia
Flood insurance — denotes the specific insurance coverage against property loss from flooding. To determine risk factors for specific properties, insurers will often refer to topographical maps that denote lowlands and floodplains that are susceptible to… … Wikipedia
Flood alert — Flood alerts are issued by government weather agencies to alert residents that flood conditions are a possibility for their area.Types of flood alertsA flash flood watch is issued when weather conditions are favorable for very heavy rain and… … Wikipedia
Flood mitigation — involves managing the effects of flooding, rather than trying to prevent it altogether. It is management of people, through measures such as evactuation and properties dry/wet proofing for example.The prevention of flooding can be studied on a… … Wikipedia
FLOOD, THE — FLOOD, THE, deluge (Heb. mabbul) described in the Book of Genesis and brought by God to destroy humankind because of its sinfulness. Outside of the Noah tales in Genesis mabbul occurs only in Psalm 29:10. In Isaiah 54:9 the great flood is called… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Flooding — Flood (Internet) Pour les articles homonymes, voir Flood. En informatique, le flood (/flʌd/) ou flooding est une action généralement malveillante qui consiste à envoyer une grande quantité de données inutiles dans un réseau afin de le rendre… … Wikipédia en Français
flood back — ˌflood ˈback [intransitive] [present tense I/you/we/they flood back he/she/it floods back present participle flooding back past tense … Useful english dictionary
Flooding (Informatik) — Flooding (engl. überfluten) bezeichnet das Überschwemmen eines Netzwerkes mit Paketen. Dies kann gewollt sein, wie im Fall von OSPF, das mit Hilfe dieser Technik Informationen an alle angeschlossenen Rechner übermittelt, oder Usenet, in dem die… … Deutsch Wikipedia
