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Engineering
The discipline, art, skill and profession of applying scientific knowledge and principles to the design and manufacturing of machines, structures, devices, systems, materials and processes.
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robin hood
Sports; Archery
A Robin Hood occurs when an archer is able to drive the tip of one arrow deep into the end of another arrow that is already in a targets bulls-eye. Neat Trick. The name comes from ...
suicide squeeze
Sports; Baseball
This is when a batter bunts the ball with a runner on third base and the runner is able to run home and score without being tagged out. The runner starts for home plate as soon as ...
access control
Aviation; Airport
A security device which is used to authenticate access to an area or data information.
margin requirement (options)
Financial services; General Finance
The amount of cash an uncovered (naked) option writer is required to deposit and maintain to cover his daily position valuation and reasonably foreseeable intraday price changes.
cadence
Entertainment; Music
A sequence of chords used to mark the end of a phrase, section or piece of music.
suppleness
Sports;
a quality of highly conditioned leg muscles that allows a rider to pedal at high cadence with smoothness and power. Also known by the French term, souplesse.
