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    Blimp (redirect from Non-rigid airship)
    (/blɪmp/), or non-rigid airship, is an airship (dirigible) without an internal structural framework or a keel. Unlike semi-rigid and rigid airships (e.g...
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  • In rotordynamics, the rigid rotor is a mechanical model of rotating systems. An arbitrary rigid rotor is a 3-dimensional rigid object, such as a top. To...
    35 KB (6,116 words) - 20:46, 16 April 2024
  • In the philosophy of language and modal logic, a term is said to be a non-rigid designator (or flaccid designator) or connotative term if it does not...
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    Airship (section Non-rigid)
    airship are non-rigid, semi-rigid, and rigid. Non-rigid airships, often called "blimps", rely on internal pressure to maintain their shape. Semi-rigid airships...
    130 KB (15,928 words) - 05:17, 5 March 2024
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    Armour-piercing composite rigid (APCR), also known as High-Velocity Armour-Piercing (HVAP) Armour-piercing composite non-rigid (APCNR), also known as Armour-Piercing...
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    armour-piercing incendiary and HEIAP rounds. Armour-piercing, composite non-rigid (APCNR) in British nomenclature, alternatively called "flange projectile"...
    41 KB (5,312 words) - 03:37, 17 April 2024
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    of a rigid dirigible (in contrast to non-rigid powered airships which had been flying since 1852). The Frenchman Joseph Spiess had patented a rigid airship...
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    shape of the airship is maintained by gas pressure, as with the non-rigid "blimp". Semi-rigid dirigibles were built in significant quantity from the late...
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    In physics, a rigid body, also known as a rigid object, is a solid body in which deformation is zero or negligible. The distance between any two given...
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    United States Navy by type, identification, and class. The fabric-clad rigid airships were given commissions, the same as warships. USS Shenandoah (ZR-1)...
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  • In chemistry and molecular physics, fluxional (or non-rigid) molecules are molecules that undergo dynamics such that some or all of their atoms interchange...
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    sporting events for television. The term blimp itself is defined as a non-rigid airship—without any internal structure, the pressure of lifting gas within...
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    and computer vision, rigid registration has the most applications. Given two point sets, non-rigid registration yields a non-rigid transformation which...
    70 KB (9,086 words) - 10:35, 3 May 2024
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    the Air Battalion Royal Engineers, acquired a small fleet of semi-rigid and non-rigid airships for observation purposes; they were taken over by the Royal...
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    be steered. Airships divide into rigid, semi-rigid and non-rigid types, with these last often known as blimps. A rigid airship has an outer framework or...
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    a regular paper. The above-mentioned mathematical definitions of rigid and non-rigid shape have arisen in the field of statistical shape analysis. In...
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  • whether or not that thing exists in that world. Rigid designators are contrasted with connotative terms, non-rigid or flaccid designators, which may designate...
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    to non-rigid balloons, and sometimes dirigible balloon is regarded as the definition of an airship (which may then be rigid or non-rigid). Non-rigid dirigibles...
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    straight lines. Some rulers, such as cloth or paper tape measures, are non-rigid. Specialty rulers exist that have flexible edges that retain a chosen...
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    Diagram of the flange method Armor-piercing composite non-rigid (APCNR) Armor-piercing non-rigid (APNR) A third method is to simply fit a smaller barrel...
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