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  2. Ladder - Wikipedia

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    The safest angle for a ladder is 75.5°; if it is too shallow, the bottom of the ladder is at risk of sliding, and if it is too steep, the ladder may fall backwards. This angle is achieved by following the 4 to 1 rule for a ladder placed on a vertical wall: for every four feet of vertical height, the ladder foot should move one foot from the wall.

  3. Ladder tournament - Wikipedia

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    A game ladder may be used as the ranking system itself, in lieu of a ranking system like Elo. In this case, players are moved up and down the ladder according to competitive results, dictated by previously determined rules. A unique game ladder system is the Masterpoints rating system used for contract bridge by the American Contract Bridge ...

  4. Glossary of Australian rules football - Wikipedia

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    Angle: the geometric angle formed by an imaginary line between a player taking a set shot and the centre of the goals (on the goal line), and another imaginary line perpendicular to the goal line. So, a player with "no angle" is taking a kick from directly in front; a player on a "wide angle" is taking a shot from near a boundary line.

  5. Blazed grating - Wikipedia

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    The Littrow configuration is a special geometry in which the blaze angle is chosen such that diffraction angle and incidence angle are identical. [1] For a reflection grating, this means that the diffracted beam is back-reflected into the direction of the incident beam (blue beam in picture). The beams are perpendicular to the step and ...

  6. Word ladder - Wikipedia

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    Word ladder (also known as Doublets, [1] word-links, change-the-word puzzles, paragrams, laddergrams, [2] or word golf) is a word game invented by Lewis Carroll. A word ladder puzzle begins with two words, and to solve the puzzle one must find a chain of other words to link the two, in which two adjacent words (that is, words in successive ...

  7. Cosmic distance ladder - Wikipedia

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    The cosmic distance ladder (also known as the extragalactic distance scale) is the succession of methods by which astronomers determine the distances to celestial objects. A direct distance measurement of an astronomical object is possible only for those objects that are "close enough" (within about a thousand parsecs to Earth.

  8. Jamshid al-Kashi - Wikipedia

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    The method used when two sides and their included angle were given was essentially the same method used by 13th century Persian mathematician Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī in his Kitāb al-Shakl al-qattāʴ (Book on the Complete Quadrilateral, c. 1250), [20] but Al-Kashi presented all of the steps instead of leaving details to the reader:

  9. Fixed ladder - Wikipedia

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    Mostly flat bar or angle profile and sometimes channel. Stand-off brackets: Dictated by OSHA Standard 1910.27(c)(4) stand-off brackets must be at least 7" (180 mm) longer than the farthest obstruction for clearance on the back side of ladder. This means that if there is a 4" (100 mm) gutter projecting from the side of a building, a fixed ladder ...