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  2. Ping (golf) - Wikipedia

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    Ping, Inc. (stylized as PING) is an American sports equipment manufacturing company based in Phoenix, Arizona. It focuses on golf equipment , producing golf clubs and golf bags . The company was founded by Karsten Solheim , following a career as an engineer at the General Electric company.

  3. Golf club - Wikipedia

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    A golf club is a club used to hit a golf ball in a game of golf.Each club is composed of a shaft with a grip and a club head. Woods are mainly used for long-distance fairway or tee shots; irons, the most versatile class, are used for a variety of shots; hybrids that combine design elements of woods and irons are becoming increasingly popular; putters are used mainly on the green to roll the ...

  4. Equitable Stroke Control - Wikipedia

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    It was used to adjust recorded scores in order to more accurately calculate a player's handicap. Its purpose was to avoid one or more very high scores on individual holes inflating the handicap calculation. Equitable stroke control was a sliding scale system, based on the course (or playing) handicap of the golfer.

  5. Engine knocking - Wikipedia

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    In spark-ignition internal combustion engines, knocking (also knock, detonation, spark knock, pinging or pinking) occurs when combustion of some of the air/fuel mixture in the cylinder does not result from propagation of the flame front ignited by the spark plug, but when one or more pockets of air/fuel mixture explode outside the envelope of the normal combustion front.

  6. Wheel alignment - Wikipedia

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    Wheel alignment, which is sometimes referred to as breaking or tracking, is part of standard automobile maintenance that consists of adjusting the angles of wheels to the car manufacturer specifications. [1] The purpose of these adjustments is to reduce tire wear and to ensure that vehicle travel is straight and true (without "pulling" to one ...

  7. ping (networking utility) - Wikipedia

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    Ping operates by means of Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) packets. Pinging involves sending an ICMP echo request to the target host and waiting for an ICMP echo reply . The program reports errors, packet loss , and a statistical summary of the results, typically including the minimum, maximum, the mean round-trip times, and standard ...

  8. Hong Kong mahjong scoring rules - Wikipedia

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    平糊; ping 4 wu 4*2: 1: Every meld is a Chow ----All in Triplets 對對糊; deoi 3 deoi 3 wu 4*2: 3: Every meld is either a Pong or Kong ----Seven Pairs (played by some variants) [1] 七對子; cat 1 deoi 3 zi 2: 4: Hand consists of seven pairs. Can stack with All Honor Tiles, Mixed One Suit and All One Suit; Bonus from Wall is not awarded ...

  9. Caster angle - Wikipedia

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    Arthur Krebs proposed placing the front axle of a car at a positive caster angle in his UK patent of 1896, entitled Improvements in mechanically propelled vehicles. In it he stated it was intended "To ensure stability of direction by means of a special arrangement of fore-carriage, that is to say, to re-establish automatically the parallelism of the two axles of the vehicle when there is no ...