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AAW An acronym for anti-aircraft warfare. aback (of a sail) Filled by the wind on the opposite side to the one normally used to move the vessel forward.On a square-rigged ship, any of the square sails can be braced round to be aback, the purpose of which may be to reduce speed (such as when a ship-of-the-line is keeping station with others), to heave to, or to assist moving the ship's head ...
Any ship carrying mail for the British Royal Mail, allocated ship prefix RMS while doing so. Typically a fast liner carrying passengers. Schooner A fore and aft-rigged vessel with two or more masts of which the foremast is shorter than the main Settee Single-decked, single or double-masted Mediterranean cargo vessel carrying a settee sail Shallop
There are several synonyms that refer to human positioning, often used interchangeably, but having specific nuances of meaning. [1] Position is a general term for a configuration of the human body. Posture means an intentionally or habitually assumed position. Pose implies an artistic, aesthetic, athletic, or spiritual intention of the position.
The sankofa symbol. Sankofa (pronounced SAHN-koh-fah) is a word in the Twi language of Ghana meaning “to retrieve" (literally "go back and get"; san - to return; ko - to go; fa - to fetch, to seek and take) and also refers to the Bono Adinkra symbol represented either with a stylized heart shape or by a bird with its head turned backwards while its feet face forward carrying a precious egg ...
Management sees the momentum carrying forward into fiscal 2025, forecasting first-quarter revenue of $14.6 billion and adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization of ...
Badla was an indigenous carry-forward system invented on the Bombay Stock Exchange as a solution to the perpetual lack of liquidity in the secondary market. Badla were banned by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) in 1993, effective March 1994, amid complaints from foreign investors, with the expectation that it would be replaced by a futures-and-options exchange. [1]
When speaking of a digital circuit like an adder, the word carry is used in a similar sense. In most computers , the carry from the most significant bit of an arithmetic operation (or bit shifted out from a shift operation) is placed in a special carry bit which can be used as a carry-in for multiple precision arithmetic or tested and used to ...
Jan 9, 2024; Mahwah, NJ, USA; Mahwah High School hosts Pascack Hills in a girls basketball game on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024. Mahwah head coach Kerin Roche talks strategy with the team.