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WORDS TO UNDERSTAND

3–D printing: a manufacturing process that first begins with the design of a product using 3–D modeling software; the machinery then uses data from the design file to apply successive layers of powder, liquid, sheet material, or other ingredients to fabricate a 3–D object biofuels: plant materials that are converted into liquid fuels for use in powering cars and other vehicles cartographer: a type of worker who collects geographic data and prepares maps in digital or graphic form for educational and environmental purposes deforestation: cutting or burning down a forest so that the land can be converted to bare ground and used for agriculture Industrial Internet of Things: the use of the Internet of Things, machine learning, and Big Data technologies to enhance industrial and manufacturing processes; also known as the industrial internet machine learning: a branch of artificial intelligence that involves programming and teaching computerized systems to learn from data, identify patterns, and make decisions with little human intervention

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