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31aircraft approach category — A grouping of aircraft based on a speed of 1.3 times the stall speed in the landing configuration at maximum gross landing weight. An aircraft fits only one category. If it is necessary to maneuver the aircraft at speeds in excess of the upper… …
32obstacle-clearance limit — The height above the airport elevation below which the minimum prescribed vertical clearance cannot be maintained either on approach or in the event of a missed approach …
33Roche limit — noun Etymology: E. A. Roche died 1883 French mathematician Date: 1889 the distance from a planet s center within which a satellite can neither approach nor reside without becoming disrupted by tidal forces …
34Roche limit — noun the closest distance which a satellite can approach its parent body without being pulled apart by tidal forces …
35Cover On Approach — The closing out of a profitable short position as the security moves toward a key level of support. As a security moves closer to a level of support the chances of it falling any further weaken because buying has come into the security at the… …
36Dirac delta function — Schematic representation of the Dirac delta function by a line surmounted by an arrow. The height of the arrow is usually used to specify the value of any multiplicative constant, which will give the area under the function. The other convention… …
37Heat capacity — Thermodynamics …
38White dwarf — For other uses, see White dwarf (disambiguation). Image of Sirius A and Sirius B taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Sirius B, which is a white dwarf, can be seen as a faint pinprick of light to the lower left of the much brighter Sirius A …
39French railway signalling — The current French railway signalling system is in force on the Réseau Ferré de France since 1930, when the code Verlant was applied. History Historically, each private railway company designed and used its own signals. However, during the First… …
40Specific heat capacity — Specific heat capacity, also known simply as specific heat, is the measure of the heat energy required to increase the temperature of a unit quantity of a substance by a certain temperature interval. The term originated primarily through the work …
