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  2. Microscope slide - Wikipedia

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    A microscope slide (top) and a cover slip (bottom) A microscope slide is a thin flat piece of glass, typically 75 by 26 mm (3 by 1 inches) and about 1 mm thick, used to hold objects for examination under a microscope. Typically the object is mounted (secured) on the slide, and then both are inserted together in the microscope for viewing. This ...

  3. Rockslide - Wikipedia

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    Rockslide at Oddicombe Beach in Devon, UK Rockslides in Nigeria Landslips. A rockslide is a type of landslide caused by rock failure in which part of the bedding plane of failure passes through compacted rock and material collapses en masse and not in individual blocks.

  4. Landslide - Wikipedia

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    It was a quick clay slide that killed one person. Landslides occur when the slope (or a portion of it) undergoes some processes that change its condition from stable to unstable. This is essentially due to a decrease in the shear strength of the slope material, an increase in the shear stress borne by the material, or a combination of the two ...

  5. Presentation slide - Wikipedia

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    A slide is a single page of a presentation. A group of slides is called a slide deck. A slide show is an exposition of a series of slides or images in an electronic device or on a projection screen. Before personal computers, they were 35 mm slides viewed with a slide projector [1] or transparencies viewed with an overhead projector.

  6. Digital pathology - Wikipedia

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    Digital pathology is a major part of pathology informatics, and encompasses topics including slide scanning, digital imaging, image analysis and telepathology.. Digital pathology is a sub-field of pathology that focuses on managing and analyzing information generated from digitized specimen slides.

  7. Slip (materials science) - Wikipedia

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    In materials science, slip is the large displacement of one part of a crystal relative to another part along crystallographic planes and directions. [1] Slip occurs by the passage of dislocations on close/packed planes, which are planes containing the greatest number of atoms per area and in close-packed directions (most atoms per length).

  8. Mudflow - Wikipedia

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    Mailboxes caught in a mudflow following the May 1980 Mount St. Helens volcanic eruption.. A mudflow, also known as mudslide or mud flow, is a form of mass wasting involving fast-moving flow of debris and dirt that has become liquified by the addition of water. [1]

  9. Presentation program - Wikipedia

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    In computing, a presentation program (also called presentation software) is a software package used to display information in the form of a slide show. It has three major functions: [1] an editor that allows text to be inserted and formatted; a method for inserting and manipulating graphic images and media clips; a slide-show system to display ...