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11Darrieus wind turbine — Fig. 1: A Darrieus wind turbine once used to generate electricity on the Magdalen Islands The Darrieus wind turbine is a type of vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) used to generate electricity from the energy carried in the wind. The turbine… …
12Technicolor (physics) — Beyond the Standard Model Standard Model …
13Physics education — refers both to the methods currently used to teach physics and to an area of pedagogical research that seeks to improve those methods. Historically, physics has been taught at the high school and college level primarily by the lecture method… …
14vectorial synthesis — Term usually applied to the mode of synthesis of proteins destined for export from the cell. As the protein is made it moves (vectorially) through the membrane of the rough endoplasmic reticulum, to which the ribosome is attached, and into the… …
15gravitation — gravitational, adj. gravitationally, adv. /grav i tay sheuhn/, n. 1. Physics. a. the force of attraction between any two masses. Cf. law of gravitation. b. an act or process caused by this force. 2. a sinking or falling …
16turbine — /terr bin, buyn/, n. any of various machines having a rotor, usually with vanes or blades, driven by the pressure, momentum, or reactive thrust of a moving fluid, as steam, water, hot gases, or air, either occurring in the form of free jets or as …
17vector — vectorial /vek tawr ee euhl, tohr /, adj. vectorially, adv. /vek teuhr/, n. 1. Math. a. a quantity possessing both magnitude and direction, represented by an arrow the direction of which indicates the direction of the quantity and the length of… …
18orthogonal lead system — a system for placing the electrocardiographic leads in spatial vectorcardiography so that ideally the three leads used are mutually perpendicular, each is parallel to one of the rectilinear coordinates of the body, and each is of equal amplitude… …
19vector — [ vɛktə] noun 1》 Mathematics & Physics a quantity having direction as well as magnitude, especially as determining the position of one point in space relative to another. 2》 an organism that transmits a particular disease or parasite from one… …
20vector — [vek′tər] n. [ModL < L, bearer, carrier < vectus, pp. of vehere, to carry: see WAY] 1. Biol. an animal, esp. an insect, that transmits a disease producing organism from a host to a noninfected animal 2. Math. a) a mathematical expression… …
