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  • Thumbnail for Flap (aeronautics)
    A flap is a high-lift device used to reduce the stalling speed of an aircraft wing at a given weight. Flaps are usually mounted on the wing trailing edges...
    32 KB (4,036 words) - 23:50, 19 February 2024
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    external flap is of ambiguous origin, but probably was originally intended to reduce abrasive wear to pants.[citation needed] Sitting or sliding on a rough...
    2 KB (204 words) - 21:04, 20 April 2024
  • § Brackets and transcription delimiters. Flapping or tapping, also known as alveolar flapping, intervocalic flapping, or t-voicing, is a phonological process...
    33 KB (2,721 words) - 04:45, 16 February 2024
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    Pet door (redirect from Cat flap)
    doors, especially the "flap-within-flap" design. Most also have a locking mechanism of some kind, and can be closed off by sliding a rigid plate into parallel...
    12 KB (1,780 words) - 12:42, 21 June 2024
  • A split-flap display, or sometimes simply a flap display, is a digital electromechanical display device that presents changeable alphanumeric text, and...
    6 KB (603 words) - 10:13, 7 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Okazaki fragments
    proposed to process Okazaki fragments: the short flap pathway and the long flap pathway. In the short flap pathway in eukaryotes the lagging strand of DNA...
    33 KB (4,435 words) - 14:24, 7 June 2024
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    Sandal (redirect from Jap flaps)
    Sandals are an open type of shoe, consisting of a sole held to the wearer's foot by straps going over the instep and around the ankle. Sandals can also...
    19 KB (2,183 words) - 14:45, 23 June 2024
  • Reconstructive surgery Triangles of skin adjacent to a sliding flap are excised to facilitate movement of the flap Collis gastroplasty John Leigh Collis, British...
    16 KB (299 words) - 12:09, 3 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Box set (theatre)
    stage, and are contrasted with earlier forms of sets which contained sliding flaps and gaps between set pieces. Box sets are traditionally attributed to...
    2 KB (256 words) - 05:19, 20 February 2023
  • Thumbnail for Sun visor
    windshield (also known as the windscreen). They are designed with a hinged flap that is adjustable to help shade the eyes of drivers and passengers from...
    7 KB (709 words) - 03:01, 16 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Breechblock
    block is common in artillery. A vertical sliding block rises and falls while a horizontal sliding block slides to one side. It is a strong design. The...
    30 KB (3,745 words) - 12:34, 17 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Trapper Keeper
    States and parts of Latin America from the 1970s to the 1990s, it featured sliding plastic rings (instead of standard snap-closed metal binder rings), folders...
    5 KB (619 words) - 11:26, 10 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for High-lift device
    Slotted flaps comprise several separate small airfoils which separate apart, hinge and even slide past each other when deployed. Such complex flap arrangements...
    9 KB (1,240 words) - 16:01, 11 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for M-1956 Load-Carrying Equipment
    from cotton duck and featured a simple flap closure fastened by a blackened "glove-type" snap. A single slide keeper was mounted on webbing sewn to the...
    22 KB (3,307 words) - 16:14, 17 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nasal cartilages
    Onur; Uygur, Safak; Ayhan, Suhan; Atabay, Kenan (2009). "Sliding Alar Cartilage (SAC) Flap: A New Technique for Nasal Tip Surgery". Annals of Plastic...
    16 KB (1,953 words) - 17:20, 28 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Leading-edge slat
    the slat lies flush with the rest of the wing. A slat is deployed by sliding forward, opening a slot between the wing and the slat. Air from below the...
    11 KB (1,377 words) - 21:44, 13 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Voiced retroflex trill
    transcribes it with the IPA symbol that is normally associated with the retroflex flap, ⟨ɽ⟩. Although the tongue starts out in a subapical retroflex position, trilling...
    4 KB (346 words) - 10:16, 31 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Brain herniation
    pupil dilation. Uncal herniation may advance to central herniation. The sliding uncus syndrome represents uncal herniation without alteration in the level...
    21 KB (2,274 words) - 12:51, 23 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Evacuation slide
    Widebody aircraft. Slides and slide/rafts can be detached from the aircraft. This may, for example, involve lifting up the flap on the girt bar, and pulling...
    22 KB (3,123 words) - 14:23, 15 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pocket protector
    may be used to carry pens, pencils, screwdrivers, small slide rules, and other small items. A flap over the outside of the pocket helps to secure the pocket...
    3 KB (285 words) - 01:43, 20 February 2024
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