Blind roller

In the lever escapement, the cylindrical metal piece mounted on the balance staff and carrying the impulse pin; it also performs the safety action. In English work, the single ...

roller

Construction; Bridge

A steel cylinder intended to provide longitudinal movements by rolling contact.

placer

Earth science; Oceanography

A layer of minerals laid down by flowing water. People who pan for gold search through placers.

reef

Earth science; Oceanography

An underwater ridge of rock that rises up to or near the surface. Reefs are important ecosystems that provide home for sea life.

aquascape

Earth science; Oceanography

A scenic view of a body of water; an area having a natural or constructed aquatic feature (as a pond or fountain).

equatorial rossby wave

Earth science; Oceanography

An equatorially trapped westward propagating wave that moves due to isentropic gradients of potential vorticity. The meridional velocity of the n'th mode of these waves has the ...

blackbody radiator

Earth science; Oceanography

A hypothetical, ideal radiator that totally absorbs and reemits all energy incident upon it. Actual objects only approach this ideal.

shear instability

Earth science; Oceanography

An instability of an unbounded parallel shear flow to the growth and nonlinear development of waves with phase speed in the along flow direction approximately equal to the speed ...

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The founder of McAfee, Inc. and lead designer on the McAfee anti-virus software, notable for being one the first successful shareware products. He ...