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  2. Sibilant - Wikipedia

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    The main distinction is the shape of the tongue. Most sibilants have a groove running down the centerline of the tongue that helps focus the airstream, but it is not known how widespread this is. In addition, the following tongue shapes are described, from sharpest and highest-pitched to dullest and lowest-pitched:

  3. Terrain-following radar - Wikipedia

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    TSR-2 XR220 at RAF Museum Cosford, 2002. Ferranti developed the first terrain-following radar specifically for the TSR-2. Terrain-following radar (TFR) is a military aerospace technology that allows a very-low-flying aircraft to automatically maintain a relatively constant altitude above ground level and therefore make detection by enemy radar more difficult.

  4. Factorial experiment - Wikipedia

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    When the factors are continuous, two-level factorial designs assume that the effects are linear. If a quadratic effect is expected for a factor, a more complicated experiment should be used, such as a central composite design. Optimization of factors that could have quadratic effects is the primary goal of response surface methodology.

  5. Partial melting - Wikipedia

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    Partial melting is the phenomenon that occurs when a rock is subjected to temperatures high enough to cause certain minerals to melt, but not all of them. Partial melting is an important part of the formation of all igneous rocks and some metamorphic rocks (e.g., migmatites), as evidenced by a multitude of geochemical, geophysical and petrological studies.

  6. S-duality - Wikipedia

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    In a gauge theory, the physical fields have a high degree of symmetry which can be understood mathematically using the notion of a Lie group. This Lie group is known as the gauge group . The electromagnetic field is described by a very simple gauge theory corresponding to the abelian gauge group U(1) , but there are other gauge theories with ...

  7. Degree of a polynomial - Wikipedia

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    The following names are assigned to polynomials according to their degree: [2] [3] [4] Special case – zero (see § Degree of the zero polynomial, below) Degree 0 – non-zero constant [5] Degree 1 – linear; Degree 2 – quadratic; Degree 3 – cubic; Degree 4 – quartic (or, if all terms have even degree, biquadratic) Degree 5 – quintic

  8. Factorization - Wikipedia

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    Factorization is one of the most important methods for expression manipulation for several reasons. If one can put an equation in a factored form E⋅F = 0, then the problem of solving the equation splits into two independent (and generally easier) problems E = 0 and F = 0. When an expression can be factored, the factors are often much simpler ...

  9. Internal validity - Wikipedia

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    Internal validity, therefore, is more a matter of degree than of either-or, and that is exactly why research designs other than true experiments may also yield results with a high degree of internal validity. In order to allow for inferences with a high degree of internal validity, precautions may be taken during the design of the study.