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Drop shipping is a form of retail business in which the seller accepts customer orders without keeping stock on hand. Instead, in a form of supply chain management, the seller transfers the orders and their shipment details either to the manufacturer, a wholesaler, another retailer, or a fulfillment house, which then ships the goods directly to the customer.
Drop, DROP, drops or DROPS may refer to: Drop (liquid) or droplet, a small volume of liquid Eye drops, saline (sometimes mydriatic) drops used as medication for the eyes; Drop (unit), a unit of measure of volume; Falling (physics), allowing an object to fall or drop Free fall; Drop, or topographic prominence, the height of a hill above its ...
Water drops on a leaf A water drop falling from a tap. A drop or droplet is a small column of liquid, bounded completely or almost completely by free surfaces. A drop may form when liquid accumulates at the end of a tube or other surface boundary, producing a hanging drop called a pendant drop.
The drop is an approximated unit of measure of volume, the amount dispensed as one drop from a dropper or drip chamber. It is often used in giving quantities of liquid drugs to patients, and occasionally in cooking and in organic synthesis. The abbreviations gt or gtt come from the Latin noun gutta ("drop").
A drop of water splashing onto a water surface, showing the formation of a back-jet Slow motion video of a fruit falling into water. In fluid mechanics , a splash is a sudden disturbance to the otherwise quiescent free surface of a liquid (usually water ).
A dead drop or dead letter box is a method of espionage tradecraft used to pass items or information between two individuals (e.g., a case officer and an agent, or two agents) via a secret location. By avoiding direct meetings, individuals can maintain operational security .
Drag and drop is considered an important program construction approach in many end-user development systems. In contrast to more traditional, text-based programming languages, many end-user programming languages are based on visual components such as tiles or icons that are manipulated by end users through drag-and-drop interfaces.
A red rectangle casting a drop shadow over a wood-like background. In graphic design and computer graphics, a drop shadow is a visual effect consisting of a drawing element which looks like the shadow of an object, giving the impression that the object is raised above the objects behind it.