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  2. Skid mark - Wikipedia

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    Skid marks from aircraft tires on a runway. A skid mark is the visible mark left by any solid which moves against another, and is an important aspect of trace evidence analysis in forensic science and forensic engineering. Skid marks caused by tires on roads occur when a vehicle wheel stops rolling and slides or spins on the surface of the road.

  3. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

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    Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...

  4. Forensic tire tread evidence - Wikipedia

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    Forensic tire tread evidence records and analyzes impressions of vehicle tire treads for use in legal proceedings to help prove the identities of persons at a crime scene. ...

  5. Trace evidence - Wikipedia

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    "Witness marks" are also an important form of trace evidence, especially in engineering and may be critical in understanding how a product failed. A typical witness mark could be an impact depression which broke a product. It is especially useful if that mark can be linked to the product which made the impact such as a hammer or nail.

  6. Skid marks - Wikipedia

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  7. Tread mark - Wikipedia

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    Skid mark, a mark left by the skidding of an object, often a tire Tread Marks , a tank combat computer game TreadMarks , distributed shared computer memory system

  8. Talk:Skid mark - Wikipedia

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    In other words, This article should be called "Tire Marks", and then be divided skid marks, acceleration marks, and yaw marks. This is the naming convention used by accident reconstructions, and since that is the context in which this article seems to appear, it should probably be consistent with that.

  9. Glossary of poetry terms - Wikipedia

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    Allegory: an extended metaphor in which the characters, places, and objects in a narrative carry figurative meaning. Often, the meaning of an allegory is religious, moral, or historical in nature. Example: "The Faerie Queene" by Edmund Spenser. [1] Periphrasis: the usage of multiple separate words to carry the meaning of prefixes, suffixes or ...