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Cylinder, head, and sector of a hard drive. Cylinder-head-sector (CHS) is an early method for giving addresses to each physical block of data on a hard disk drive. It is a 3D-coordinate system made out of a vertical coordinate head, a horizontal (or radial) coordinate cylinder, and an angular coordinate sector. Head selects a circular surface ...
Examples include the plane, the lateral surface of a cylinder or cone, a conical surface with elliptical directrix, the right conoid, the helicoid, and the tangent developable of a smooth curve in space. A ruled surface can be described as the set of points swept by a moving straight line.
A masonry skew arch bridge photographed shortly after its completion in 1898, showing the helicoidal nature of its stonework. Sickergill Skew Bridge over the River Raven at Renwick, near Penrith. A skew arch (also known as an oblique arch) is a method of construction that enables an arch bridge to span an obstacle at some angle other than a ...
Infinite zig-zag skew polygons are 2-dimensional infinite skew polygons with vertices alternating between two parallel lines. Infinite helical polygons are 3-dimensional infinite skew polygons with vertices on the surface of a cylinder. Regular infinite skew polygons exist in the Petrie polygons of the affine and hyperbolic Coxeter groups. They ...
The Hotine oblique Mercator (also known as the rectified skew orthomorphic or 'RSO' projection) projection has approximately constant scale along the geodesic of conceptual tangency. [1] Hotine's work was extended by Engels and Grafarend in 1995 to make the geodesic of conceptual tangency have true scale. [ 2 ]
This plane is not a tangential plane so is a skew plane, in other words not a meridional plane. Rays propagating in this plane are called sagittal rays . In third-order astigmatism, the tangential rays (in the tangential plane) and sagittal rays (in the sagittal plane) form foci at different distances along the optic axis.
Cutting a single helical groove into a screw-stock cylinder yields what is referred to as a single-thread screw. Similarly, one may construct a double-thread screw provided that the helix angle of the two cuts is the same, and that the second cut is positioned in the uncut material between the grooves of the first.
From the description, it sounds identical to parameters known as "cylinder skew" and "head skew" in hard drive parlance. This would be most appropriately explained at the same time as sector interleaving, another technique used on hard disks in the days when disk controllers were too slow to keep up with spinning media.