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A staircase or stairway is one or more flights of stairs leading from one floor to another, and includes landings, newel posts, handrails, balustrades, and additional parts. [4] In buildings, stairs is a term applied to a complete flight of steps between two floors. A stair flight is a run of stairs or steps between landings.
A handrail is a rail that is designed to be grasped by the hand so as to provide safety or support. [1] In Britain , handrails are referred to as banisters . Handrails are commonly used while ascending or descending stairways and escalators in order to prevent injurious falls, and to provide bodily support in bathrooms or similar areas.
On 17 August 2012 the BBC Radio 4 program More or Less [3] noted that the Carli index, used in part in the British retail price index, has a built-in bias towards recording inflation even when over successive periods there is no increase in prices overall. [clarification needed] [Explain why]
A guide rail is a system designed to guide vehicles back to the roadway and away from potentially hazardous situations. [4] There is no legal distinction between a guide rail and a guard rail . According to the US Federal Highway Administration , the terms guardrail and guiderail are synonymous.
A plot of the smoothstep(x) and smootherstep(x) functions, using 0 as the left edge and 1 as the right edgeSmoothstep is a family of sigmoid-like interpolation and clamping functions commonly used in computer graphics, [1] [2] video game engines, [3] and machine learning.
San Francisco, [23] officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center within Northern California.With a population of 808,988 residents as of 2023, [14] San Francisco is the fourth-most populous city in the state of California and the 17th-most populous in the United States.
A variable-rate mortgage, adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM), or tracker mortgage is a mortgage loan with the interest rate on the note periodically adjusted based on an index which reflects the cost to the lender of borrowing on the credit markets. [1] The loan may be offered at the lender's standard variable rate/base rate. There may be a direct ...
Santa Barbara (Spanish: Santa Bárbara, meaning ' Saint Barbara ') is a coastal city in Santa Barbara County, California, of which it is also the county seat.Situated on a south-facing section of coastline, the longest such section on the West Coast of the United States excepting Alaska, the city lies between the steeply rising Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific Ocean.