A magnetic bearing is a type of bearing that supports a load using magnetic levitation. Magnetic bearings support moving parts without physical contact...

specifically: Absolute bearing refers to the clockwise angle between the magnetic north (magnetic bearing) or true north (true bearing) and an object. For...

needles. A magnetic card compass is usually equipped with an optical, lensatic, or prismatic sight, which allows the user to read the bearing or azimuth...

Magnetic declination (also called magnetic variation) is the angle between magnetic north and true north at a particular location on the Earth's surface...

and wear; Fluid bearing, a noncontact bearing in which the load is supported by a gas or liquid (i.e. air bearing); Magnetic bearing, in which the load...

circle bearing system which determines the angle which the survey line makes with the magnetic north in the clockwise direction. The whole circle bearing system...

the aircraft's compass system, and permits the operator to read the magnetic bearing to or from the transmitting station, without resorting to arithmetic...

for his work in nuclear fusion, plasma physics, magnetic mirrors, magnetic levitation, magnetic bearing design and direct energy conversion. Post was a...

Gravitomagnetism Magnetic hysteresis Magnetar Magnetic bearing Magnetic circuit Magnetic cooling Magnetic field viewing film Magnetic stirrer Switched-mode...

A thrust bearing is a particular type of rotary bearing. Like other bearings they permanently rotate between parts, but they are designed to support a...

Magnetic levitation (maglev) or magnetic suspension is a method by which an object is suspended with no support other than magnetic fields. Magnetic force...

energy density than conventional design but requires a specialized magnetic bearing and control system. The specific energy of a flywheel is determined...

no major long-distance EMS maglev routes have been built. An active magnetic bearing (AMB) works on the principle of electromagnetic suspension and consists...

relative bearing. To simplify this task, a compass card driven by the aircraft's magnetic compass is added to the RBI to form a radio magnetic indicator...

An electromagnet is a type of magnet in which the magnetic field is produced by an electric current. Electromagnets usually consist of wire wound into...

use QDM Magnetic bearing to a station (callsign) request QDM (callsign) QDL Series of bearings taken at regular intervals QDR Magnetic bearing from a station...

Historically, horizontal angles were measured by using a compass to provide a magnetic bearing or azimuth. Later, more precise scribed discs improved angular resolution...

Active Power was founded in 1992 as Magnetic Bearing Technologies, Inc., where the company manufactured magnetic bearings for a variety of applications...

pendulum. Electromagnetic suspension Electrodynamic wheel Magnetic bearing Electrodynamic bearing Levitron U.S. patent 4,382,245 Theodore Gray (2 February...

exhausting hot gasses. Many turbo blowers use either an air bearing or a magnetic bearing. Magnetic bearing blowers provide low transmitted vibration, high-speed...

explosives.) C Charlie Azure, a fess gules fimbriated argent "Affirmative." Magnetic bearing D Delta Or, a Spanish fess azure "Keep clear of me; I am maneuvering...

Magnetic Bearing Flywheel Experimental System (MABES), also known as Jindai (じんだい) is a National Space Development Agency of Japan(NASDA) satellite mission...

large refrigeration and air conditioning systems. Magnetic bearing (magnetically levitated) and air bearing centrifugal compressors exist. Many large snowmaking...

Most iron-bearing carbonates and silicates are paramagnetic at all temperatures. Some sulfides are paramagnetic, but some are strongly magnetic (see below)...

up amb in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. AMB may refer to: Active magnetic bearing Advanced Memory Buffer, used in Fully Buffered DIMM memory Al-Aqsa...

A magnetic bearing holds the top of the rotor steady, and the only physical contact (necessary only during start-up) is the conical jewel bearing on...

magnetic deviation. Thus, a comparison of bearings taken with such methods with the bearing given by a compass can be used to compute local magnetic deviation...

Bearing balls are special highly spherical and smooth balls, most commonly used in ball bearings, but also used as components in things like freewheel...

Magnetic storage or magnetic recording is the storage of data on a magnetized medium. Magnetic storage uses different patterns of magnetisation in a magnetizable...

notion that the dry compass was known in Europe by then. A bearing compass is a magnetic compass mounted in such a way that it allows the taking of bearings...