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A tin can phone is a type of acoustic (non-electrical) speech-transmitting device made up of two tin cans, paper cups or similarly shaped items attached to either end of a taut string or wire. It is a particular case of mechanical telephony , where sound (i.e., vibrations in the air) is converted into vibrations along a liquid or solid medium .
A string line is a tool made for the purpose of marking a straight line, level, or corner for construction purposes. when building foundations, string lines are hung on batter boards [1] View of crossed strings at batter boards. indicating corner of foundation.
In gridiron football, a line of scrimmage is an invisible transverse line (across the width of the field) beyond which a team cannot cross until the next play has begun. Its location is based on the spot where the ball is placed after the end of the most recent play and following the assessment of any penalty yards .
String girdling Earth is a mathematical puzzle with a counterintuitive solution. In a version of this puzzle, string is tightly wrapped around the equator of a perfectly spherical Earth. If the string should be raised 1 metre (3 ft 3 in) off the ground, all the way along the equator, how much longer would the string be?
In information theory, linguistics, and computer science, the Levenshtein distance is a string metric for measuring the difference between two sequences. The Levenshtein distance between two words is the minimum number of single-character edits (insertions, deletions or substitutions) required to change one word into the other.
Take control of where you'll end up after deleting or moving a message in AOL Mail. Choose to go back to the original folder, the next message, or the previous message after moving the email. 1. Click the Setting icon. 2. Click More Settings. 2. Click Viewing email. 3. Under "After moving a message," choose the option you want.
Better credit can help save hundreds of dollars per year, or thousands of dollars total, on the cost of a car loan. Bottom line Owning a car has gotten shockingly expensive for many Americans.
The following can be used to find the versine of a given constant radius curve: [2] The Hallade method is to use the chord to continuously measure the versine in an overlapping pattern along the curve. The versine values for the perfect circular curve would have the same number. [3]