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kiosk
A small stand-alone structure used to disseminate products and/or
information. A stall set up in a public place where one can obtain
information, e.g. tourist information. The information may be provided
by a human or by a computer. In the latter case, the data may be
stored locally (e.g. on CD-ROM) or accessed via a network using
some kind of distributed information retrieval system such as Gopher
or World-Wide Web.
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