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  2. Glossary of landforms - Wikipedia

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    Mesa – Elevated area of land with a flat top and sides, usually much wider than buttes; Mogote – Steep-sided residual hill of limestone, marble, or dolomite on a flat plain; Nubbin – Small hill of bedrock with rounded residual blocks; Palsa – A low, often oval, frost heave occurring in polar and subpolar climates

  3. Borehole - Wikipedia

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    Drilling for boreholes was time-consuming and long. As the depth of the holes varied, the drilling of a single well could last nearly one full decade. [4] It was not up until the 19th century that Europe and the West would catch up and rival ancient Chinese borehole drilling technology. [10] [5]

  4. Watering hole - Wikipedia

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    A watering hole is a natural geological depression where water collects. A watering hole or waterhole is a geological depression in which a body of water forms, usually a pond or a small lake. A watering hole is "a sunken area of land that fills with water". [1] Watering holes may be ephemeral or seasonal.

  5. Surface area - Wikipedia

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    A sphere of radius r has surface area 4πr 2.. The surface area (symbol A) of a solid object is a measure of the total area that the surface of the object occupies. [1] The mathematical definition of surface area in the presence of curved surfaces is considerably more involved than the definition of arc length of one-dimensional curves, or of the surface area for polyhedra (i.e., objects with ...

  6. Glossary of golf - Wikipedia

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    References External links 0–9 19th hole The clubhouse bar. A ace When a player hits the ball directly from the tee into the hole with one stroke. Also called a hole in one. address The act of taking a stance and placing the club-head behind the golf ball. If the ball moves once a player has addressed the ball, there is a one-stroke penalty, unless it is clear that the actions of the player ...

  7. Glossary of chess - Wikipedia

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    hole A square that is inside or near a player's territory that cannot be controlled by a pawn. It is a gap in a player's pawn configuration, and especially dangerous when the hole is close to the center or near the king. A knight landing on a hole may be part of an attack. An example of a hole is e4 in the Stonewall Attack. [201] home rank

  8. This is what the holes in pasta ladles are meant for

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    The hole in the center of the ladle is actually used to measure out a single serving of pasta. It works best with spaghetti and linguine. But, perhaps you can visualize the correct serving amount ...

  9. Polygon with holes - Wikipedia

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    A face with a point hole is considered a monogonal hole, adding one vertex, and one edge, and can attached to a degenerate monogonal hosohedron hole, like a cylinder hole with zero radius. A face with a degenerate digon hole adds 2 vertices and 2 coinciding edges, where the two edges attach to two coplanar faces, as a dihedron hole.