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  2. Distributary - Wikipedia

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    Common terms to name individual river distributaries in English-speaking countries are arm and channel.These terms may refer to a distributary that does not rejoin the channel from which it has branched (e.g., the North, Middle, and South Arms of the Fraser River, or the West Channel of the Mackenzie River), or to one that does (e.g. Annacis Channel and Annieville Channel of the Fraser River ...

  3. Plume (fluid dynamics) - Wikipedia

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    Plume shapes can be influenced by flow in the ambient fluid (for example, if local wind blowing in the same direction as the plume results in a co-flowing jet). This usually causes a plume which has initially been 'buoyancy-dominated' to become 'momentum-dominated' (this transition is usually predicted by a dimensionless number called the ...

  4. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    recreational trip away from home (UK: holiday for both senses) (v.) to take a vacation (n., especially NCAA usage) vacated victory ; forfeiture of sports competition results and/or records by an institution; an act or instance of vacating or legally voiding them [ 88 ]

  5. Marangoni effect - Wikipedia

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    The temperature gradients in axial and radial directions makes the fluid flow away from the hot end and the walls of the tube, towards the center axis. The liquid forms a droplet with a small contact area with the tube walls, a thin film circulating liquid between the cooler droplet and the liquid at the hot end.

  6. Pyroclastic flow - Wikipedia

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    Pyroclastic flows sweep down the flanks of Mayon Volcano, Philippines, in 2018. A pyroclastic flow (also known as a pyroclastic density current or a pyroclastic cloud) [1] is a fast-moving current of hot gas and volcanic matter (collectively known as tephra) that flows along the ground away from a volcano at average speeds of 100 km/h (30 m/s; 60 mph) but is capable of reaching speeds up to ...

  7. Flow (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    Flow is the melting together of action and consciousness; the state of finding a balance between a skill and how challenging that task is. It requires a high level of concentration. Flow is used as a coping skill for stress and anxiety when productively pursuing a form of leisure that matches one's skill set. [2]

  8. Attenuation - Wikipedia

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    In physics, attenuation (in some contexts, extinction) is the gradual loss of flux intensity through a medium.For instance, dark glasses attenuate sunlight, lead attenuates X-rays, and water and air attenuate both light and sound at variable attenuation rates.

  9. Mass wasting - Wikipedia

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    Talus cones produced by mass moving, north shore of Isfjord, Svalbard, Norway Mass wasting at Palo Duro Canyon, West Texas (2002) A rockfall in Grand Canyon National Park. Mass wasting, also known as mass movement, [1] is a general term for the movement of rock or soil down slopes under the force of gravity.