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    Tornado. The term "swept wing" is normally used to mean "swept back", but other swept variants include forward sweep, variable sweep wings and oblique...
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    A variable-sweep wing, colloquially known as a "swing wing", is an airplane wing, or set of wings, that may be swept back and then returned to its original...
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    A forward-swept wing or reverse-swept wing is an aircraft wing configuration in which the quarter-chord line of the wing has a forward sweep. Typically...
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  • sweep, sweeping, or swept in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sweep or swept may refer to: Sweep, the action of using a brush to clean Chimney sweep,...
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  • Thumbnail for Sweep line algorithm
    computational geometry, a sweep line algorithm or plane sweep algorithm is an algorithmic paradigm that uses a conceptual sweep line or sweep surface to solve...
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    entire building) alight. The chimney must be swept to remove the soot. In Great Britain, master sweeps took apprentices, typically workhouse or orphan...
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    designs since the very first days of the Wright Flyer. Swept back (aka "swept wing"): The wing sweeps rearwards from the root to the tip. In early tailless...
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  • Thumbnail for Linear sweep voltammetry
    In analytical chemistry, linear sweep voltammetry is a method of voltammetry where the current at a working electrode is measured while the potential...
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  • Thumbnail for Clean sweep (naval)
    A "clean sweep" for a naval vessel is having "swept the enemy from the seas", a completely successful mission. It is traditionally indicated by hanging...
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  • being "swept overnight" into an investment vehicle of some kind. The choices for sweep investments are often either money funds, "eurodollar sweeps", or...
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    Oblique wing (category Variable-sweep-wing aircraft)
    is swept forward while the opposite tip is swept aft. By changing its sweep angle in this way, drag can be reduced at high speed (with the wing swept) without...
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    Panavia Tornado (category Variable-sweep-wing aircraft)
    10 in) Wingspan: 13.91 m (45 ft 8 in) at 25° sweep Swept wingspan: 8.60 m (28 ft 3 in) swept at 67° sweep Height: 5.95 m (19 ft 6 in) Wing area: 26.6 m2...
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    leading edges (beyond 50 degrees of sweep) or highly-swept wing-root extensions added to a wing of moderate sweep. It is sometimes known as non-linear...
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    frequency components that are close together. For a swept-tuned architecture, this relation for sweep time is useful:   S T = k ( S p a n ) R B W 2 {\displaystyle...
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  • usually regular, possible past form sweat with coalescence of dentals sweepsweptswept upsweep – upswept – upswept Weak with vowel shortening. Replaced...
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  • NBA Finals), setting a franchise record. With a four–game sweep against Utah, Golden State swept consecutive playoff series for the first time in franchise...
    114 KB (3,488 words) - 04:57, 24 April 2024
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    Operation End Sweep was a United States Navy and United States Marine Corps operation to remove naval mines from Haiphong harbor and other coastal and...
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  • Swept-plane display is a structure from motion technique with which one can create the optical illusion of a volume of light, due to the persistence of...
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    playoff-record nine road games in the 1995 playoffs. It was the second NBA Finals sweep in the 2–3–2 Finals format (after the Detroit Pistons did so against the...
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    Sukhoi Su-47 (category Forward-swept-wing aircraft)
    retain aileron control. Conversely to more conventional rear-swept wings, forward sweep geometrically creates increased angle of incidence of the outer...
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