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  • 71baseball — /bays bawl /, n. 1. a game of ball between two nine player teams played usually for nine innings on a field that has as a focal point a diamond shaped infield with a home plate and three other bases, 90 ft. (27 m) apart, forming a circuit that… …

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  • 72fluid 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… …

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  • 73Comparison of cricket and baseball — Cricket and baseball are the best known members of a family of related bat and ball games. While many of their rules, terminology, and strategies are similar, there are many differences some subtle, some major between the two games. Other present …

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  • 74Olympic-Wallowa Lineament — Location of the Olympic Wallowa Lineament. Is the OWL an optical illusion? The Olympic Wallowa lineament (OWL) – first reported by cartographer Erwin Raisz in 1945 [1] on a relief map of the continental United States – is a physiographic feature… …

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  • 75ASIE - Géographie physique — L’Asie est le plus vaste des continents: 44 millions de kilomètres carrés. Elle s’étend sur 75 degrés de latitude et, en tenant compte des îles, sur 92 degrés (de la Severnaïa Zemlia, ou Terre du Nord, 810 de latitude nord, à l’île Roti, 110 de… …

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  • 76Burnishing (metalworking) — Burnishing is the plastic deformation of a surface due to sliding contact with another object. Visually, burnishing smears the texture of a rough surface and makes it shinier. Burnishing may occur on any sliding surface if the contact stress… …

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  • 77electricity — /i lek tris i tee, ee lek /, n. 1. See electric charge. 2. See electric current. 3. the science dealing with electric charges and currents. 4. a state or feeling of excitement, anticipation, tension, etc. [1640 50; ELECTRIC + ITY] * * *… …

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  • 78AMÉRIQUE - Géologie — L’Amérique – ou, pour être plus précis, les Amériques – est constituée de trois ensembles présentant des différences marquées, tant dans leurs structures, héritées du passé géologique (fig. 1 et hors texte, pl. XII à XVI), que dans leurs… …

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  • 79planche — [ plɑ̃ʃ ] n. f. • v. 1190; bas lat. planca, fém. de plancus « aux pieds plats », du gr. phalanx I ♦ 1 ♦ Pièce de bois plane, plus longue que large et généralement peu épaisse. ⇒ ais, chanlatte, latte, planchette, palplanche. Scier des planches… …

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  • 80Highway 407 (Ontario) — in Brampton jct|state=ON|Hwy|427 in Vaughan jct|state=ON|Hwy|400 in Vaughan jct|state=ON|Hwy|404 in Markham direction b=East terminus b=jct|state=ON|Hwy|7 in Pickering previous type=Hwy previous route=406 next type=Hwy next route=409Highway 407,… …

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