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A dragonfly in its radical final moult, metamorphosing from an aquatic nymph to a winged adult.. In biology, moulting (British English), or molting (American English), also known as sloughing, shedding, or in many invertebrates, ecdysis, is a process by which an animal casts off parts of its body to serve some beneficial purpose, either at specific times of the year, or at specific points in ...
Viral shedding is the expulsion and release of virus progeny following successful reproduction during a host cell infection. Once replication has been completed and the host cell is exhausted of all resources in making viral progeny, the viruses may begin to leave the cell by several methods.
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In the fields of horticulture and botany, the term deciduous (/ d ɪ ˈ s ɪ dʒ u. ə s /) [1] [2] means "falling off at maturity" [3] and "tending to fall off", [4] in reference to trees and shrubs that seasonally shed leaves, usually in the autumn; to the shedding of petals, after flowering; and to the shedding of ripe fruit.
an abscission scar on the trunk of Castilla where a branch has been shed. Cladoptosis (Ancient Greek κλάδος kládos "branch", πτῶσις ptôsis "falling" [noun]; sometimes pronounced with the p silent) is the regular shedding of branches. [1] It is the counterpart for branches of the familiar process of regular leaf shedding by ...
64-bit kernel 2.4.x systems have an 8 EB limit for all file systems. 32-bit kernel 2.6.x systems without option CONFIG_LBD have a 2 TB limit for all file systems. 32-bit kernel 2.6.x systems with option CONFIG_LBD and all 64-bit kernel 2.6.x systems have an 8 ZB limit for all file systems. [5]
The Shed (arts center), a cultural center in New York City; Shed End, the south stand of the Stamford Bridge football stadium in London; Koussevitzky Music Shed, also known as "the Shed", a music venue at Tanglewood ‘The Shed’, a standing Terrace (stadium) at Kingsholm Stadium, the home ground of Gloucester Rugby
In meteorology, a precipitationshed is the upwind ocean and land surface that contributes evaporation to a given, downwind location's precipitation.The concept has been described as an "atmospheric watershed". [1]