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  2. Slosh dynamics - Wikipedia

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    Similar phenomena can cause pogo oscillation and can result in structural failure of a space vehicle. Another example is problematic interaction with the spacecraft's Attitude Control System (ACS), especially for spinning satellites [ 8 ] which can suffer resonance between slosh and nutation , or adverse changes to the rotational inertia .

  3. Baffle - Wikipedia

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    Baffle (liquid mixing), auxiliary devices employed in tank which suppress the effects of slosh dynamics; Baffle (heat transfer), a flow-directing or obstructing vane or panel used in some industrial process vessels (tanks) Baffle (medicine), a tunnel or wall surgically constructed within the heart or primary blood vessels to redirect blood flow

  4. Turnstile - Wikipedia

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    In addition, a turnstile can restrict passage only to people who insert a coin, ticket, transit pass, security credential, or other method of payment or verification. Modern turnstiles can incorporate biometrics , including retina scanning, fingerprints, and other individual human characteristics which can be scanned.

  5. List of fictional felines - Wikipedia

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    Sometimes raises philosophical points that annoy or baffle Alice. It does, however, appear to cheer her up when it turns up suddenly at the Queen of Hearts' croquet field, and when sentenced to death baffles everyone by having made its head appear without its body, sparking a massive argument between the executioner and the King and Queen of ...

  6. Bafflestone - Wikipedia

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    A bafflestone in thin section (width of image is 34 mm). Bafflestone is a type of carbonate rock.. The Dunham Classification (Dunham, 1962 [1]) of limestones employed the term boundstone to encompass all carbonate rocks that exhibited any evidence of the original components being organically-bound together at the time of deposition.

  7. Undulatory locomotion - Wikipedia

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    In animals that move without use of limbs, the most common feature of the locomotion is a rostral to caudal wave that travels down their body. However, this pattern can change based on the particular undulating animal, the environment, and the metric in which the animal is optimizing (i.e. speed, energy, etc.).

  8. A. J. Raffles (character) - Wikipedia

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    After Raffles fakes his death a second time in "An Old Flame", they move to a cottage owned by a genial landlady on the edge of Ham Common, where Raffles pretends he is Bunny's brother Ralph. In December 1899, Raffles and Bunny become interested in the Boer War. In 1900, they decide to volunteer for service in the war, leaving England in ...

  9. Wikipedia:Pages needing translation into English - Wikipedia

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    2. Add a mention to the list of pages needing translation, using {} as detailed below. 3. You may also choose to warn the contributing editor with {}, the "use English" warning, or suggest submitting it to a different language Wikipedia with {{contrib-xx1}}, where xx is the language code (see available templates).