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divided into "hot" and "cold" eyeball planets. Close binary stars throughout the universe are expected to be tidally locked with each other, and extrasolar...

lock, also known as the Yale lock after the inventor of the modern version, is a lock mechanism that uses pins of varying lengths to prevent the lock...

An anti-lock braking system (ABS) is a safety anti-skid braking system used on aircraft and on land vehicles, such as cars, motorcycles, trucks, and buses...

entire row); deadlock: the situation when each of at least two tasks is waiting for a lock that the other task holds. Unless something is done, the two...

A lock is a device used for raising and lowering boats, ships and other watercraft between stretches of water of different levels on river and canal waterways...

Caps Lock ⇪ Caps Lock is a button on a computer keyboard that causes all letters of bicameral scripts to be generated in capital letters. It is a toggle...

Scroll Lock (⤓ or ⇳) is a lock key (typically with an associated status light) on most IBM-compatible computer keyboards. Depending on the operating system...

inserted into the keyway of the lock, and a force is applied to the locking bolt. The pick is then used to lift each lever inside the lock to the correct...

to over 40 countries, with more being added. Good Lock uses modules that can be added by users, each of which provides a different sort of customization...

Blue Lock (Japanese: ブルーロック, Hepburn: Burū Rokku) (stylized as BLUELOCK) is a Japanese manga series written by Muneyuki Kaneshiro and illustrated by Yusuke...

A warded lock (also called a ward lock) is a type of lock that uses a set of obstructions, or wards, to prevent the lock from opening unless the correct...

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is a 1998 British crime film written and directed by Guy Ritchie. It follows a heist involving a confident young card...

A simple way to prevent this is to lock the file whenever a record is being modified by any user, so that no other user can save data. This prevents records...

Lock picking is the practice of unlocking a lock by manipulating the components of the lock device without the original key. Although lock-picking can...

that lock into each other when expanded. The shafts are usually made of steel, but lightweight baton models may have their shafts made from other materials...

a deadlock, but a performance killer), where two or more threads lock on each other while another unrelated thread is running. These temporary deadlocks...

the state reverted to off at each reboot or keyboard reset, but later models retained F-Lock state across reboots. Other keyboard manufacturers (such...

cryptography or other technical hindrances. Collective Whether individuals are locked in collectively, in part through each other. Economically, there...

mechanism, gimbal lock occurs when the axes of two of the gimbals are driven into a parallel configuration, "locking" the system into rotation in a degenerate...

new alignment discharges into the Niagara River, which is navigable upstream to the New York Barge Canal's Black Rock Lock and thence to the Canal's...