Sailing

Sailing

The art of controlling and steering a boat with large foils called sails.

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luminaires

Advertising; Billboard advertising

A lighting fixture designed to hold fluorescent lamps. They are featured prominently throughout commercial and industrial complexes, and are powered by a transformer inside the ...

shamble

Sports; Golf

where every player hits from the golf tee and all players play the best tee-shot

charge coupled device (CCD)

Consumer electronics; Video camera

Semiconductor device made of a matrix (or lines) of individual photosensitive elements, called pixels. The optics focus the scene onto the matrix and each pixel accumulates an ...

dash number

Rubber; Seals

Indicator of o-ring size.

release aid

Sports; Archery

This is a device an archer uses, so that he / she is able, from a fully drawn position, to let go of the bowstring without loosening their fingers.

strike zone

Sports; Baseball

The Strike Zone officially is: that area over home plate the upper limit of which is a horizontal line at the midpoint between the top of the shoulders and the lower level is a ...

waitlist

Aviation; Airport

A list of clients seeking transportation or accommodations at times when they are unavailable. Waitlisted clients are confirmed as a result of subsequent cancellations.

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