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A parasternal heave, lift, [1] or thrust [2] is a precordial impulse that may be felt (palpated) in patients with cardiac or respiratory disease. Precordial impulses are visible or palpable pulsations of the chest wall, which originate on the heart or the great vessels .
Heave compensation is motion compensator technology applied to minimizing the vertical movement of a load supported by lifting gear mounted on a heaving platform. Techniques include active heave compensation and passive heave compensation —the two traditional types of heave compensation—as well as balanced heave compensation .
Hand of cards during a game. The following is a glossary of terms used in card games.Besides the terms listed here, there are thousands of common and uncommon slang terms. Terms in this glossary should not be game-specific (e.g. specific to bridge, hearts, poker or rummy), but apply to a wide range of card games played with non-proprietary pac
"Two, six, heave" is a phrase used to coordinate seamen's pulling. As used by sailors, the person at the front of the team will typically call out the "two, six" part of the chant. During this phase all members move their hands up the line ready to pull. This is followed, in its natural rhythm, by the "heave", called out by the whole team together.
Active heave compensation (AHC) is a technique used on lifting equipment to reduce the influence of waves upon offshore operations. AHC differs from Passive Heave Compensation by having a control system that actively tries to compensate for any movement at a specific point, using power to gain accuracy.
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Heave or heaving may refer to: Heave (translational motion), one of the translational degrees of freedom of any stiff body (for example a vehicle), describing motion along the vertical axis (to move up or down) Heaving to or 'heave to', a way of slowing a sailing vessel's forward progress; Hiv, Iran (romanized as Heave), a village in Alborz ...
Columnist David Marcus, writing from Asheville, N.C., says the people are banding together and helping each other four months after Hurricane Helene.