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The surface of the table has the same cloth covering as a standard pool table. Two bumpers flank each pocket. [2] The remaining bumpers are arranged in a cross in the center of the table, with one line of the cross in line with the pockets. [2] At the center of the cross, there is an open space just large enough to allow a ball to pass through.
Table shuffleboard (also known as American shuffleboard, indoor shuffleboard, slingers, shufflepuck, and quoits, sandy table) is a game in which players push metal-and-plastic weighted pucks (also called weights or quoits) down a long and smooth wooden table into a scoring area at the opposite end of the table.
Atlantic bumper are generally described as silver to golden colored, with golden yellow on the anal and caudal fins, [4] which have 3 spines, 25–28 rays and 9 spines, 25–28 rays, respectively. [2] There is an obvious black saddle-shaped blotch on the caudal peduncle and a similar patch near the edge of the opercle. [4]
A buffer stop, bumper, bumping post, bumper block or stopblock (US), is a device to prevent railway vehicles from going past the end of a physical section of track. The design of the buffer stop is dependent, in part, on the kind of couplings that the railway uses, since the coupling gear is the first part of the vehicle that the buffer stop ...
The beltline is a line representing the bottom edge of a vehicle's glass panels (e.g. windscreen, side windows and rear window). [1] [2] [3] It also represents the bottom of a vehicle's greenhouse. This definition is found on all cars, regardless of vehicle body style. [clarification needed]
Chloroscombrus is a genus containing two species of tropical to temperate water marine fish in the jack and horse mackerel family Carangidae.Both members are commonly known as bumpers or bumperfish, with one species endemic to the Atlantic and the other to the eastern Pacific.
Approach (α) and departure angle (β) of a vehicle. Approach angle is the maximum angle of a ramp onto which a vehicle can climb from a horizontal plane without interference.
Regulations affecting bumper design in the late 1970s saw the increasing use of soft plastic materials on the front and rear of vehicles. Fascia was adopted then as the term to describe these soft areas, [4] but is now increasingly used as a general term for a car's set of front-end components: grille, headlamps, front bumper, and other details ...