Pusher

A professional who doffs and transfers sliver cans among carding, drawing, and slubbing machines. Responsibilities include: * Pushes or drags full sliver cans from carding to ...

pusher

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a rider who pedals in a large gear at a relatively slow cadence, relying on the gear size for speed. This is called pushing.

pusher

Sports; Bicycle & electric bicycle

a rider who pedals in a large gear at a relatively slow cadence, relying on the gear size for speed. This is called pushing.

pusher

Sports; Tennis

a player who does not try to hit winners, but only to return the ball safely

horizontal drilling

Oil & gas; Drilling

Horizontal drilling is the process of drilling a well from the surface to a depth just above the target oil or gas reservoir called the kickoff point, then curving the drilling ...

CNOOC 981

Oil & gas; Drilling

The sixth-generation semi-submersible and China's first deep-sea drilling platform owned by China National Offshore Oil Corporation or CNOOC. The drilling rig went into formal ...

drilling platform

Oil & gas; Drilling

An offshore platform used to drill exploration and development wells but lacking the processing facilities of a production platform.

orill bit

Oil & gas; Drilling

The part of the drilling tool which actually cuts through the rock.

drilling table

Oil & gas; Drilling

The table on the derrick floor whereby the drill pipe is rotated, also called the rotary table.

heave

Oil & gas; Drilling

The up-and-down movement of a semisubmersible drilling platform or drill ship.

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Chinese room

A thought experiment developed by John Searle. It attempts to show that computers cannot 'understand' things in the same way that humans do, instead, ...