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  2. Streamlines, streaklines, and pathlines - Wikipedia

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    Streamlined objects and organisms, like airfoils, streamliners, cars and dolphins are often aesthetically pleasing to the eye. The Streamline Moderne style, a 1930s and 1940s offshoot of Art Deco, brought flowing lines to architecture and design of the era. The canonical example of a streamlined shape is a chicken egg with the blunt end facing ...

  3. Aquatic locomotion - Wikipedia

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    The collision causes drag against moving fish, which is why many fish are streamlined in shape. Streamlined shapes work to reduce drag by orienting elongated objects parallel to the force of drag, therefore allowing the current to pass over and taper off the end of the fish. This streamlined shape allows for more efficient use of energy locomotion.

  4. Common surface features of Mars - Wikipedia

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    Streamlined shapes represent more evidence of past flowing water on Mars. Water shaped features into streamlined shapes. Streamlined feature, as seen by HiRISE under HiWish program Location is Memnonia quadrangle .

  5. Fish locomotion - Wikipedia

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    Like most fish, the tilapia has a streamlined body shape reducing water resistance to movement and enabling the tilapia to cut easily through water. Its head is inflexible, which helps it maintain forward thrust. [3] Its scales overlap and point backwards, allowing water to pass over the fish without unnecessary obstruction. Water friction is ...

  6. Fish fin - Wikipedia

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    The AquaPenguin, developed by Festo of Germany, copies the streamlined shape and propulsion by front flippers of penguins. [ 102 ] [ 103 ] Festo also developed AquaRay , [ 104 ] AquaJelly [ 105 ] and AiraCuda , [ 106 ] respectively emulating the locomotion of manta rays, jellyfish and barracuda.

  7. Cetacea - Wikipedia

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    They have a streamlined shape, and their forelimbs are flippers. Almost all have a dorsal fin on their backs, but this can take on many forms, depending on the species. A few species, such as the beluga whale, lack them. Both the flipper and the fin are for stabilization and steering in the water. [citation needed]

  8. Swimming stroke - Wikipedia

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    This streamlined shape minimizes resistance and allows the swimmer to glide, for example after a start, a push off from a wall, or to rest between strokes. Turtle stroke: On the breast, extend right arm then pull, after pushing with the left leg (while opposite limbs are recovering), then opposite limbs repeat this process, i. e. left arm pulls ...

  9. Glossary of landforms - Wikipedia

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    Firth – Scottish word used for various coastal inlets and straits; Fjard – Glacially formed, broad, shallow inlet; Fjord – Long, narrow inlet with steep sides or cliffs, created by glacial activity; Geo – Inlet, a gully or a narrow and deep cleft in the face of a cliff; Gulf – Large inlet from the ocean into the landmass List of gulfs