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Bow Wave

A slang term for the initial shock of a change decreed by upper management. The term has a slightly negative connotation, but the situation is usually considered to be temporary.

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The phasing of this compression wave was not changed with the backpressure, which was around 530[degrees]CA in all the cases.

Preliminary Investigation of Exhaust Pressure Waves in a Single Cylinder Diesel Engine and the Impacts on Aftertreatment Sprays

av] of the compression wave propagating through the felt material.

Shock wave propagation in nonlinear microstructured wool felt/Looklainete levimine mittelineaarses mikrostruktuurses villases vildis

The range of changes in the compression wave velocity in the rocks of this depth interval is 5.

Density and velocity model of metamorphic rock properties in the upper and middle crystalline crust in the Kola superdeep borehole (SG-3) section

Venant's principle, as contact starts the velocity of the contact end becomes immediately equals to the rigid mass velocity and right away a compression wave is created at the contact end and travels across the rod with velocity 'c'.

A finite element simulation to longitudinal impact waves in elastic rods

Once compression waves were generally covered, the slinky introduced the most important type of compression wave--sound.

Making waves off The Grand Concourse

s] axis can be treated as a one-dimensional problem similar to a longitudinal compression wave propagating through a bar of elastoviscous medium.

Wave nature in deformation of solids and comprehensive description of deformation dynamics/Tahkiste deformatsiooni lainelaadne iseloom ja deformatsioonidunaamika uksikasjalik kirjeldus

This, according to Goldman, compresses the comet, and the compression wave travels through the comet faster than the speed of sound.

Comet's glancing blow to planet could spark off life

The porosity, shear and compression wave velocities were measured in the lab and in simulated in situ conditions (Kern et al.

Some properties and structure of the crystalline crust from superdeep drilling data (SG-3, SG-4, KTB)

The difficulty, apparently, is not in the mechanics of the monopode's foot, which moves when a compression wave passes through it.

The gooed foot

Engineers decided to focus on a program that relied on Pulse Echo (PE) compression wave transducers and Time of Flight Diffraction (TOFD) to generate high-resolution color graphic wall thickness maps of the riser section in question.

Ultrasonic examinations detail fitness of North Sea pipeline. (Pipeline & Gas Journal's International/Offshore Report)

The wide spray pattern is enhanced by a unique compression wave generated by two impinging burner cans.

Xiom Corp. Introduces High Production Rate Spray Gun

According to theoretical models, radiation from this star would drive a compression wave into the cloud triggering star formation in the interior, while evaporating the cloud's outer layers.

Radiation from massive stars may trigger many more stars than previously thought