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1Cylinder-head-sector — Cylinder head sector, also known as CHS, was an early method for giving addresses to each physical block of data on a hard disk drive. In the case of floppy drives, for which the same exact diskette medium can be truly low level formatted to… …
2Cylinder stresses — Circumferential stress is a type of mechanical stress of a cylindrically shaped part as a result of internal or external pressure. The classic example of circumferential stress is the tension applied to the iron bands, or hoops, of a wooden… …
3Cylinder (engine) — Illustration of an engine cylinder with a cross section view of the piston, connecting rod, valves and spark plug. A cylinder is the central working part of a reciprocating engine or pump, the space in which a piston travels. Multiple cylinders… …
4Steam cylinder — Steam Steam (st[=e]m), n. [OE. stem, steem, vapor, flame, AS. ste[ a]m vapor, smoke, odor; akin to D. stoom steam, perhaps originally, a pillar, or something rising like a pillar; cf. Gr. sty ein to erect, sty^los a pillar, and E. stand.] 1. The… …
5Wehnelt cylinder — A Wehnelt cylinder is an electrode in the electron gun assembly of some thermionic devices, used for focusing and control of the electron beam. It is named after Arthur Rudolph Berthold Wehnelt, a German physicist, who invented it during the… …
6graduated cylinder — n. a thin, cylindrical container that is scaled, usually in milliliters: used as in a laboratory to measure and pour exact amounts of a liquid * * * …
7graduated cylinder — n. a thin, cylindrical container that is scaled, usually in milliliters: used as in a laboratory to measure and pour exact amounts of a liquid …
8List of moments of inertia — The following is a list of moments of inertia. Mass moments of inertia have units of dimension mass × length2. It is the rotational analogue to mass. It should not be confused with the second moment of area (area moment of inertia), which is used …
9fluid mechanics — an applied science dealing with the basic principles of gaseous and liquid matter. Cf. fluid dynamics. [1940 45] * * * Study of the effects of forces and energy on liquids and gases. One branch of the field, hydrostatics, deals with fluids at… …
10superconductivity — superconduction /sooh peuhr keuhn duk sheuhn/, n. superconductive /sooh peuhr keuhn duk tiv/, superconducting, adj. superconductor /sooh peuhr keuhn duk teuhr/, n. /sooh peuhr kon deuhk tiv i tee/, n. Physics. the phenomenon of almost perfect… …
