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  • 51Cracker (food) — This article is about the oven baked food item. For the unrelated disparaging term, see Cracker (pejorative) Water biscuit crackers plain and as part of a snack in Singapore, with herring and garlic cream topping and a parsley garnish …

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  • 52Sphericon — The sphericon is a 3D shape with one side and two edges, discovered by Colin Roberts, of Hertfordshire, England.To construct, take a bicone (a double cone) with an apex of 90 degrees, and split it from apex to apex. Rotate one half by 90 degrees …

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  • 53Internal ballistics — Internal ballistics, a subfield of ballistics, is the study of a projectile s behavior from the time its propellant s igniter is initiated until it exits the gun barrel. The study of internal ballistics is important to designers and users of… …

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  • 54Diffusion (acoustics) — Diffusion, in acoustics and architectural engineering, is the efficacy by which sound energy is spread evenly in a given environment. A perfectly diffusive sound space is one that has certain key acoustic properties which are the same anywhere in …

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  • 55drum — drum1 /drum/, n., pl. drums, (esp. collectively for 11) drum, v., drummed, drumming. n. 1. a musical percussion instrument consisting of a hollow, usually cylindrical, body covered at one or both ends with a tightly stretched membrane, or head,… …

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  • 56come — 1 /kVm/ verb past tense came past participle come MOVE 1 (I) a word meaning to move towards someone, or to visit or arrive at a place, used when the person speaking or the person listening is in that place: Come a little closer. | Sarah s coming… …

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  • 57beak — beaked /beekt, bee kid/, adj. beakless, adj. beaklike, adj. beaky, adj. /beek/, n. 1. the bill of a bird; neb. 2. any similar horny mouthpart in other animals, as the turtle or duckbill. 3. anything beaklike or ending in a point, as the spout of… …

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  • 58Grinding (abrasive cutting) — Sketch of how abrasive particles in a grinding wheel remove material from a workpiece. Grinding is an abrasive machining process that uses a grinding wheel as the cutting tool. A wide variety of machines are used for grinding: Hand cranked knife… …

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  • 59familiar —    A spirit that maintains regular contact with a person, sometimes acting in service or guardianship, or providing information and instruction. The term familiar is from the Latin term familiaris, meaning “of a household or domestic.”… …

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  • 60-shaped — UK [ʃeɪpt] US suffix used with many nouns to make adjectives describing the shape of something a heart shaped leaf a crescent shaped scar Thesaurus: suffixeshyponym shaped like a specific objecthyponym * * * …

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