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  2. Ballooning (spider) - Wikipedia

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    Ballooning, sometimes called kiting, is a process by which spiders, and some other small invertebrates, move through the air by releasing one or more gossamer threads to catch the wind, causing them to become airborne at the mercy of air currents and electric fields. A 2018 study concluded that electric fields provide enough force to lift ...

  3. Box kite - Wikipedia

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    The skin is drum-tight, a consequence of the unique tensioning system devised by Hargrave. A collapsed kite, rolled up for transport, lies on the ground. A box kite is a high-performance kite, noted for developing relatively high lift; it is a type within the family of cellular kites. The typical design has four parallel struts.

  4. Kite - Wikipedia

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    Kite flying in Hyderabad starts a month before this, but kite flying/fighting is an important part of other celebrations, including Republic Day, Independence Day, Raksha Bandhan, Viswakarma Puja day in late September and Janmashtami.

  5. Coarse-grained modeling - Wikipedia

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    This is a consideration in classical mechanics. In order to relate this view to macroscopic physics one surrounds each point , e.g. with a sphere of some fixed volume - a procedure called coarse graining which lumps together points or states of similar behaviour. The trajectory of this sphere in phase space then covers also other points and ...

  6. Parafoil - Wikipedia

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    Parafoils see wide use in a variety of windsports such as kite flying, powered parachutes, paragliding, kitesurfing, speed flying, wingsuit flying and skydiving. [2] [4] [5] [6] The world's largest kite is a parafoil-variant. [7] Today, SpaceX uses steerable Parafoils to recover the fairings of their Falcon 9 rocket.

  7. Kite applications - Wikipedia

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    The spiders that kite to disperse (so-called ballooning spiders) have been found in nets raised to upper air for collecting; [42] the method is noted carefully in Spider Ballooning: Development and Evaluation of Field Trapping Methods (Araneae) [43] Balloon kite of the so-called ballooning spiderlings; the spiders' kite is not a balloon.

  8. List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic ...

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    Slender-billed kite, Helicolestes hamatus ; Ruitersbos pincushion, Leucospermum hamatum; Dark Tiger (butterfly) Tirumala hamata: hamatus – hamatum – hamata: haplo-G ἁπλόος (haplóos) simple, single: mountain beaver, Aplodontia rufa; Mongolosaurus haplodon: hedra-G ἕδρα (hédra) seat, facet: Chinese ephedra, Ephedra sinica: helio-

  9. Biophysics - Wikipedia

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    Biophysics is an interdisciplinary science that applies approaches and methods traditionally used in physics to study biological phenomena. [1] [2] [3] Biophysics covers all scales of biological organization, from molecular to organismic and populations.