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  2. Swell (geology) - Wikipedia

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    A swell in geology is a domed area of considerable areal extent. [1] According to Leser, it is also called a sill (geology), and is a gently arched landform of various orders of size in topographic, sub-glacial or sub-hydric geology. It may be as small as a rock formation in a river or may assume continental scale. [2]

  3. Swale (landform) - Wikipedia

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    A constructed swale or bioswale built in a residential area to manage stormwater runoff. A swale is a shady spot, or a sunken or marshy place. [1] In US usage in particular, it is a shallow channel with gently sloping sides.

  4. Douglas sea scale - Wikipedia

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    No swell 1 Very Low (short or average and low wave) 2 Low (long and low wave) 3 Light (short and moderate wave) 4 Moderate (average and moderate wave) 5 Moderate rough (long and moderate wave) 6 Rough (short and high wave) 7 High (average and high wave) 8 Very high (long and high wave) 9 Confused (wavelength and height indefinable)

  5. 2-6-6-4 - Wikipedia

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    Swiss classification: 3/4+3/5; The UIC classification is refined to (1'C)C2 ' for simple articulated locomotives. The 2-6-6-4 was a fairly late development, a product of the superpower steam concept, introduced by the Lima Locomotive Works, which encouraged the use of large fireboxes supported by four-wheel trailing trucks. Such a firebox could ...

  6. List of Euclidean uniform tilings - Wikipedia

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    For example 4.8.8 means one square and two octagons on a vertex. These 11 uniform tilings have 32 different uniform colorings . A uniform coloring allows identical sided polygons at a vertex to be colored differently, while still maintaining vertex-uniformity and transformational congruence between vertices.

  7. List of tessellations - Wikipedia

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    Hyperbolic; Article Vertex configuration Schläfli symbol Image Snub tetrapentagonal tiling: 3 2.4.3.5 : sr{5,4} Snub tetrahexagonal tiling: 3 2.4.3.6 : sr{6,4} Snub tetraheptagonal tiling

  8. 2-6-6-6 - Wikipedia

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    The 2-6-6-6 (in Whyte notation) is an articulated locomotive type with two leading wheels, two sets of six driving wheels and six trailing wheels. Only two classes of the 2-6-6-6 type were built. One was the "Allegheny" class , built by the Lima Locomotive Works .

  9. Rill - Wikipedia

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    A downslope view of part of the eroding rill network from County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.See below for a close-up view of a single rill. In hillslope geomorphology, a rill is a shallow channel (no more than a few inches/centimeters deep) cut into soil by the erosive action of flowing surface water.