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  2. Reluctant hero - Wikipedia

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    The reluctant hero is a heroic archetype typically found in fiction. The reluctant hero is typically portrayed either as an everyman forced into surreal situations which require him to rise to heroism and its acts, or as a person with special abilities who nonetheless reveals a desire to avoid using those abilities for selfless benefit.

  3. Magnetic reluctance - Wikipedia

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    The definition can be expressed as follows: = where R {\displaystyle {\mathcal {R}}} ("R") is the reluctance in ampere-turns per weber (a unit that is equivalent to turns per henry ). " Turns " refers to the winding number of an electrical conductor comprising an inductor.

  4. Edging (sexual practice) - Wikipedia

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    Edging can be done both alone and with a partner. Edging, sometimes also referred to as gooning [1] [2] [Note 1] or surfing, [3] is a sexual technique whereby an orgasm is controlled (that is, delayed or prevented).

  5. Simplexity - Wikipedia

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    Simplexity was defined by computer scientists Broder and Stolfi as: "The simplexity of a problem is the maximum inefficiency among the reluctant algorithms that solve P. An algorithm is said to be pessimal for a problem P if the best-case inefficiency of A is asymptotically equal to the simplexity of P." [2]

  6. Sex worker - Wikipedia

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    The term is listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [3] and Merriam-Webster's Dictionary. [11] The term "sex worker" is used by some types of sex workers (i.e. prostitutes) to avoid invoking the stigma associated with the word "prostitute". Using the term "sex worker" rather than "prostitute" also allows more members of the sex industry to be ...

  7. Onan - Wikipedia

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    Onan [a] was a figure detailed in the Book of Genesis chapter 38, [1] as the second son of Judah who married the daughter of Shuah the Canaanite. Onan had an older brother Er and a younger brother, Shelah as well.

  8. Reluctance motor - Wikipedia

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    The stator consists of multiple projecting (salient) electromagnet poles, similar to a wound field brushed DC motor.The rotor consists of soft magnetic material, such as laminated silicon steel, which has multiple projections acting as salient magnetic poles through magnetic reluctance.

  9. Hero - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 10 February 2025. Person or character who combats adversity through ingenuity, courage, or strength For other uses, see Hero (disambiguation), Heroine (disambiguation), and Heroes (disambiguation). "Heroism" and "Heroine" redirect here. For the film, see Heroism (film). The examples and perspective in ...