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pūāhua

1. (noun) situation.

Arā ētahi pūāhua he nui ake i te kotahi te huringa pūngao, ka kīia he raupapa pūngao (RP 2009:214). / There are some other situations where there is more than a single energy transformation, and these are called energy chains.

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2. (noun) character (computers) - a letter, number, punctuation mark, or other symbol.

Ka whakakapi rawa a Excel i ngā pūāhua muhu i ia ingoa mā tētahi pūāhua ahungarua (_) (LP 2017). / Excel will permanently replace invalid characters in each name with an underscore (_) character (LP 2017).

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