Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of dipterous insects, formerly of great extent, now restricted as the type of the family Conopidæ. C. flavipes, the larvæ of which live in the abdomen of hymenopterous insects, is an example.
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Examples
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This is due to the conops that DARPA directed Taurus to be developed under.
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The conops comes from a grub that is engendered in the slime of vinegar.
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For the food that insects go in quest of is of diverse kinds, and they do not all delight in the same flavours: for instance, the bee never settles on a withered or wilted flower, but on fresh and sweet ones; and the conops or gnat settles only on acrid substances and not on sweet.
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This test sequence, jointly sponsored by MOD UK and OSD DDRE JCTD programme, focused on evaluating potential payloads as well as advancing the conops for operating long endurance persistent aircraft in excess of five days.
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Applicants must be knowledgeable of friendly forces and adversary conops, tactics, threat capabilities, targeting priorities, sensor-collection techniques, operational level planning, execution and assessment and conducting operations analysis.
RI.gov 2009
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So where does the General's conops for Afghanistan diverge from the Iraq lessons of the past two years?
Mudville Gazette 2008
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"The bottom of the computer is curved," so that is can adjust to the contours of a soldier's back, "said Norm Blankenbeckler, Northrop training and conops (concept of operations) developer.
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