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Washout is commonly achieved by designing the wing with a slight twist, reducing the angle of incidence from root to tip, and therefore causing a lower angle of attack at the tips than at the roots.
A washout occurred on the Riverside and Great Northern Railway in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, on June 11, 2004.. In road and rail transport, a washout is the result of a natural disaster where the roadbed is eroded away by flowing water, usually as the result of a flood. [1]
Washed Out, the stage name of chillwave musician Ernest Greene; The well drilling process for enlarging a drill hole in an oil well; A term for a sporting event cancelled due to rain; see Rainout (sports) An alternate name for a run-in period, a common phase in clinical research; Radiocontrast washout, where radiocontrast disappears from a tissue
Washing out the mouth with soap is a traditional form of physical punishment that consists of placing soap, or a similar cleaning agent, inside a person's mouth so that the person will taste it, inducing what most people consider an unpleasant experience.
The term Hot Wash comes from the practice used by some soldiers of dousing their weapons in extremely hot water as a means of removing grit and residue after firing. While this practice by no means eliminates the need to properly break down the weapon later for cleaning, it removes the major debris and ensures the cleaning process goes more ...
This filter will only produce a non-zero output only during transient periods when the input signal is of higher frequency and not in a constant steady state value. Conversely, the filter will “wash out” sensed input signals that is of lower frequency (constant steady-state signal). [C.K. Wang]
Run-in period is a period between the recruitment and randomization phases of a clinical trial, [1] [2] when all participants receive the same treatment, which may be active treatment, a placebo or no treatment at all.
Wash trading is a form of market manipulation in which an entity simultaneously sells and buys the same financial instruments, creating a false impression of market activity without incurring market risk or changing the entity's market position. Wash trading has been deemed illegal in most jurisdictions.