dynamics, disk loading or disc loading is the average pressure change across an actuator disk, such as an airscrew. Airscrews with a relatively low disk loading...
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area of a bootable disk, with code that starts the operating system loading sequence, is not encrypted. Some hardware-based full disk encryption systems...
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floppy disk or floppy diskette (casually referred to as a floppy, a diskette, or a disk) is a type of disk storage composed of a thin and flexible disk of...
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the Osprey has a higher disk loading and lower hover efficiency than a helicopter, the V-280 will have a lower disk loading and longer wing for greater...
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Master boot record (redirect from MBR disk signature)
the same as the action of a floppy disk volume boot record loading the object code of an operating system loader into RAM. In either case, the program...
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A boot disk is a removable digital data storage medium from which a computer can load and run (boot) an operating system or utility program. The computer...
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Momentum theory (redirect from Disk actuator theory)
Circulation (fluid dynamics) Disk loading Kutta–Joukowski theorem Wikimedia Commons has media related to Actuator disk theory. Rankine, W.J. Macquorn...
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storage. A DOS provides a file system and a means for loading and running programs stored on the disk. The term is now historical, as most if not all operating...
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The Family Computer Disk System, commonly shortened to the Famicom Disk System or, is a peripheral for Nintendo's Family Computer (Famicom) home video...
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Range: 539 nmi (620 mi, 998 km) Service ceiling: 14,000 ft (4,300 m) Disk loading: 9.8 lb/sq ft (48 kg/m2) Power/mass: 0.23 shp/lb (0.38 kW/kg) Aviation...
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contained their own fast-loading routines on the distribution media. The user would load a small "stub" program from the disk with the standard slow routines...
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Application of a structural load to a system Disk loading, the pressure maintained over the swept area of a helicopter's rotor Seismic loading, one of the basic...
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relative to its mass (i.e., low wing loading) will have a lower stalling speed. Therefore, an aircraft with lower wing loading will be able to take off and land...
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one hub over the other. Tandem-rotor helicopters tend to have a lower disk loading than single-rotor helicopters. Tandem-rotor helicopters typically require...
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(short for Workbench hard disk load) is a software package for the Amiga platform to make installation of software to a hard disk easier, for such things...
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A loading screen is a screen shown by a computer program, very often a video game, while the program is loading (moving program data from the disk to RAM)...
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ceiling: 17,400 ft (5,300 m) Rate of climb: 1,745 ft/min (8.86 m/s) Disk loading: 6.19 lb/sq ft (30.2 kg/m2) 1982 Bristow Helicopters Bell 212 crash:...
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Bootloader (redirect from Boot loader)
device can begin functioning immediately; little or no loading is necessary, because the loading can be precomputed and stored on the ROM when the device...
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m), disk loading is 14.5 kg/m2) Main rotor area: 16.9 m2 (182 sq ft) Performance Endurance: 10 minutes Disk loading: 14.5 kg/m2 (3.0 lb/sq ft) disk loading...
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RDX is a disk-based removable storage format intended as a replacement of tape storage. RDX removable disk technology consists of portable disk cartridges...
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The floppy disk is a data storage and transfer medium that was ubiquitous from the mid-1970s well into the 2000s. Besides the 3½-inch and 5¼-inch formats...
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Removable media (redirect from Removable disk)
inserted and removed from a system. Most early removable media, such as floppy disks and optical discs, require a dedicated read/write device (i.e. a drive)...
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limits: +3 -0.5 Rate of climb: 13.6 m/s (2,680 ft/min) max at sea level Disk loading: 49.5 kg/m2 (10.1 lb/sq ft) max Power/mass: 0.31 kW/kg (0.19 hp/lb) Armament...
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55 m/s) without mast radar 500 ft/min (152.4 m/min) with mast radar Disk loading: 13.8473 lb/sq ft (67.608 kg/m2) YRAH-66 Power/mass: 0.13 hp/lb (0.21 kW/kg)...
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ceiling: 20,000 ft (6,100 m) at MTOW Rate of climb: 1,350 ft/min (6.9 m/s) Disk loading: 4 lb/sq ft (20 kg/m2) Power/mass: 0.09 hp/lb (0.15 kW/kg) Two Bell 206...
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tiltwings, but less than helicopters. This is due to the difference in rotor disk loading. As of 2014, NASA is testing a diesel-electric hybrid 10-foot 10-rotor...
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aircraft of this size to conduct vertical takeoff, resulting in high disk loading. Most missions use fixed wing flight 75% or more of the time, reducing...
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DOS (redirect from MS-DOS compatible disk operating system)
DOS (/dɒs/, /dɔːs/) is a family of disk-based operating systems for IBM PC compatible computers. The DOS family primarily consists of IBM PC DOS and a...
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magnetic disk storage devices from 1956 to 2003, when it sold its hard disk drive business to Hitachi. Both the hard disk drive (HDD) and floppy disk drive...
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GNU GRUB (redirect from Super Grub Disk)
can do little more than load the next stage of GRUB by loading a few disk sectors from a fixed location near the start of the disk (within its first 1024...
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