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11Displacement–length ratio — The displacement–length ratio (DLR or D/L ratio) is a calculation used to express how heavy a boat is relative to its waterline length. (Rousmaniere, 1999) A DLR is calculated by dividing a boat s displacement in long tons (2,240 pounds) by one… …
12Mean length of utterance — (or MLU) is a measure of linguistic productivity in children. It is traditionally calculated by collecting 100 utterances spoken by a child and dividing the number of morphemes by the number of utterances. A higher MLU is taken to indicate a… …
13Stub (electronics) — In electronic signaling, a stub is a section of transmission line with a calculated length. It is used for impedance matching or to obtain an exact capacitance or inductance.Because stubs take on reactive properties as a function of their… …
14Mesoamerican Long Count calendar — Long Count redirects here. For the 1927 boxing match, see The Long Count Fight. Detail showing three columns of glyphs from a portion of the 2nd century CE La Mojarra Stela 1. The left column gives a Long Count date of 8.5.16.9.7, or 156 CE. The… …
15Naval artillery in the Age of Sail — The cannon shot (c. 1680), painted by Willem van de Velde the Younger Naval artillery in the Age of Sail encompasses the period of roughly 1571 1863: when large, sail powered wooden naval warships dominated the high seas, mounting a bewildering… …
16Fiber optic sensor — A fiber optic sensor is a sensor that uses optical fiber either as the sensing element ( intrinsic sensors ), or as a means of relaying signals from a remote sensor to the electronics that process the signals ( extrinsic sensors ). Fibers have… …
17Izhora River — Izhora ( ru. Ижóра, fi. Inkereenjoki), also known as Inger River, is a left tributary of the Neva River on its run through Ingria in northwestern Russia from Lake Ladoga to Gulf of Finland. A settlement of Ust Izhora (lit. mouth of Izhora ) is… …
18Stub — may refer to: * Stub or stubb, a low pollard, a tree cut and allowed to regrow from the trunk (the origin of most other meanings) *Method stub, in computer programming, a piece of code used to stand in for some other programming functionality… …
19United Kingdom general election records — UK general election records is an annotated list of notable records from United Kingdom general elections.Prior to 1945, electoral competition in the United Kingdom exhibited features which make meaningful comparisons with modern results… …
20astronomical unit (AU) — Length of the semimajor axis of Earth s orbit around the Sun, 92,955,808 mi (149,597,870 km), often defined simply as the average distance from Earth to the Sun. Direct measurement through the parallax method cannot be used for accurate… …
