• The Shape of Water is a 2017 period romantic dark fantasy film directed and produced by Guillermo del Toro, who co-wrote the screenplay with Vanessa Taylor...
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  • The Shape of Punk to Come: A Chimerical Bombination in 12 Bursts, often shortened to The Shape of Punk to Come, is the third album by Swedish hardcore...
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  • In metallurgy, a shape-memory alloy (SMA) is an alloy that can be deformed when cold but returns to its pre-deformed ("remembered") shape when heated...
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  • The Shape of Things to Come is a science fiction novel written by the British writer H. G. Wells published in 1933. It takes the form of a future history...
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  • Shape optimization is part of the field of optimal control theory. The typical problem is to find the shape which is optimal in that it minimizes a certain...
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  • Roof shapes encompass a broad range of designs, including flat (or shed), gabled, hipped, arched, domed, and a wide variety of other configurations An...
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  • Wing-shape optimization is a software implementation of shape optimization primarily used for aircraft design. This allows for engineers to produce more...
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    Tree shaping (also known by several other alternative names) uses living trees and other woody plants as the medium to create structures and art. There...
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    Heart symbol (redirect from Heart (shape))
    exhibited in the National Museum of India. In the 5th–6th century BC, the heart shape was used in the Roman world to represent the seeds of the plant silphium...
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    River delta Delta wing E-shape, the shape that resembles the capital letter E Magnetic cores of transformers may be E-shaped A number of notable buildings...
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  • three shapes, and the transition between those is often induced by temperature change. In addition to temperature change, the shape change of SMPs can...
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    A wing is a type of fin that produces both lift and drag while moving through air. Wings are defined by two shape characteristics, an airfoil section...
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    A wing tip (or wingtip) is the part of the wing that is most distant from the fuselage of a fixed-wing aircraft. Because the wing tip shape influences...
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    The wing configuration or planform of a fixed-wing aircraft (including both gliders and powered aeroplanes) is its arrangement of lifting and related...
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    elliptical shapes and wings with other planforms can be optimized to give elliptical spanwise lift distributions. The basic elliptical wing shape has disadvantages:...
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    fixed-wing aircraft that is propelled forward by thrust from a jet engine, propeller, or rocket engine. Airplanes come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and...
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  • Series 1 Episode 2: The Flying Stars". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 6 April 2024. "Father Brown Series 1 Episode 3: The Wrong Shape". BBC Genome Project...
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    Area rule (redirect from Coke bottle shape)
    laterally (i.e. in the fuselage or in the wing). Furthermore, to avoid the formation of strong shock waves the external shape of the aircraft has to be...
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    A delta wing is a wing shaped in the form of a triangle. It is named for its similarity in shape to the Greek uppercase letter delta (Δ). Although long...
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    Base (ICAO: EBCV), also referred to as SHAPE Airfield at Chievres Air Base, is a NATO airfield operated by the United States Air Force. It is located...
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    control remained very poor. Wing morphing is a modern-day extension of wing warping in which the aerodynamic shape of the wing is modified under computer...
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    hollow fabric wing whose shape is formed by its suspension lines. Air entering vents in the front of the wing and the aerodynamic forces of the air flowing...
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    Rib (aeronautics) (redirect from Wing rib)
    anatomical definition of "rib", the ribs attach to the main spar, and by being repeated at frequent intervals, form a skeletal shape for the wing. Usually ribs...
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    airfoils/hydrofoils, common examples being bird wings, the bodies of fish, and the shape of sand dollars. An airfoil-shaped wing can create downforce on an automobile...
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  • adaptive compliant wing is a wing which is flexible enough for aspects of its shape to be changed in flight. Flexible wings have a number of benefits. Conventional...
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  • describes some of the parameters used to characterize the thickness and shape of boundary layers formed by fluid flowing along a solid surface. The defining...
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    after 16 Psyche. The symbol was a butterfly's wing topped by a star ( or ), as the butterfly was a Greek symbol of the soul (psyche being the Greek word for...
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    structure. The pilot sits in a harness or in a cocoon-like 'pod' suspended below a fabric wing. Wing shape is maintained by the suspension lines, the pressure...
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    Wainfan Facetmobile (category Aircraft first flown in 1993)
    qualities. The aircraft is unusual in that it is a lifting body – the whole aircraft acts as a low aspect ratio wing: a flat, angular lifting shape, unlike...
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    the shape of a cuboid, usually with rounded corners and/or edges. The name is derived from the rough resemblance to a chocolate bar in size and shape...
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