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  2. Stick–slip phenomenon - Wikipedia

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    The stick–slip phenomenon, also known as the slip–stick phenomenon or simply stick–slip, is a type of motion exhibited by objects in contact sliding over one another. The motion of these objects is usually not perfectly smooth, but rather irregular, with brief accelerations (slips) interrupted by stops (sticks).

  3. Spacer GIF - Wikipedia

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    The reason a spacer GIF is invisible is so that an HTML developer can create a table cell and fill the background with a specific color that can be viewed through the transparent spacer GIF. For instance, a developer seeking to create a square blue box 500 pixels on a side could use a separate blue 500×500 graphic at the expense of additional ...

  4. Strč prst skrz krk - Wikipedia

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    Strč prst skrz krk (pronounced [str̩tʃ pr̩st skr̩s kr̩k] ⓘ) is a tongue twister in Czech and Slovak meaning 'stick a finger through the neck'. [1] The sentence is well known for being a semantically and syntactically valid clause without a single vowel, the nucleus of each syllable being a syllabic r , a common feature among many Slavic ...

  5. Transparency (graphic) - Wikipedia

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    GIF animation of an Apollonian sphere packing with transparent background. Transparency in computer graphics is possible in a number of file formats. The term "transparency" is used in various ways by different people, but at its simplest there is "full transparency" i.e. something that is completely invisible. Only part of a graphic should be ...

  6. List of Google April Fools' Day jokes - Wikipedia

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    From 2000 to 2019, Google frequently inserted jokes and hoaxes into its products on April Fools' Day, which takes place on April 1.The company ceased performing April Fools jokes in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and has not performed them since.

  7. List of gestures - Wikipedia

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    Fig sign is a gesture made with the hand and fingers curled and the thumb thrust between the middle and index fingers, or, rarely, the middle and ring fingers, forming the fist so that the thumb partly pokes out. In some areas of the world, the gesture is considered a good luck charm; in others (including Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Russia, Serbia ...

  8. Mallet finger - Wikipedia

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    Mallet finger of the middle finger. The tip of the finger bends downwards while the other fingers stay straight. Specialty: Emergency medicine, sports medicine, plastic surgery: Symptoms: Inability to extend the finger tip, pain and bruising of the finger [3] Causes: Trauma resulting in over bending of the finger tip [3] Diagnostic method

  9. Pivot Animator - Wikipedia

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    Pivot Animator (formerly Pivot Stickfigure Animator and usually shortened to Pivot) is a freeware application that allows users to create stick-figure and sprite animations, and save them in the animated GIF format for use on web pages and the AVI format (in Pivot Animator 3 and later).