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1False cognate — False cognates are pairs of words in the same or different languages that are similar in form and meaning but have different roots. That is, they appear to be or are sometimes considered cognates when in fact they are not. Note that even false… …
2False Profits — Infobox Star Trek episode name = False Profits Arridor series = Voyager ep num = 47 prod num = 40840 144 date = October 2, 1996 writer = George A. Brozak Joe Menosky director = Cliff Bole guest = Dan Shor as Arridor Leslie Jordan as Kol Michael… …
3false — adj 1. untrue, untruthful, unveracious, mendacious, devoid of truth, not right; lying, fibbing, perjured, forsworn; fabricative, fabricated, trumped up. 2. erroneous, mistaken, incorrect, amiss, wrong, all wrong, Sl. all wet, Sl. full of beans or …
4false bearing — noun : a bearing (as of a lintel or beam) not directly on a vertical support …
5Main beam — Main Main (m[=a]n), a. [From {Main} strength, possibly influenced by OF. maine, magne, great, L. magnus. Cf. {Magnate}.] 1. Very or extremely strong. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] That current with main fury ran. Daniel. [1913 Webster] 2. Vast; huge.… …
6Battle of the Beams — The Battle of the Beams was a period in early World War II when bombers of the German Air Force ( Luftwaffe ) started using radio navigation for night bombing. British scientific intelligence at the Air Ministry fought back with a variety of… …
7Libraries and collections of Stonyhurst College — The Jesuit origins of Stonyhurst College have enabled it to a amass a large collection of books, a number of which concern recusant history, whilst artefacts from all over the world have been brought back to the school by Jesuit missionaries and… …
8Video camera tube — In older video cameras, before the mid to late 1980s, a video camera tube or pickup tube was used instead of a charge coupled device (CCD) for converting an optical image into an electrical signal. Several types were in use from the 1930s to the… …
9Parabolic antenna — A parabolic satellite communications antenna at Erdfunkstelle Raisting, the biggest facility for satellite communication in the world, in Raisting, Bavaria, Germany. It has a Cassegrain type feed. A parabolic antenna is an antenna that uses a… …
10Nikola Tesla — Tesla, aged 37, 1893, photo by Sar …
