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Height-velocity diagram — The Height Velocity diagram or H/V curve is a graph charting the safe/unsafe flight profiles relevant to a specific helicopter. As operation outside the safe area of the chart can be fatal in the event of a power or transmission failure it is… … Wikipedia
Dead Man's Curve (disambiguation) — Dead Man s Curve may refer to: Dead Man s Curve, used in the U.S. to refer to a stretch of road that has claimed a number of lives Dead Man s Curve (song), a song by Jan Dean Dead Man s Curve (Frank Black song), a song by Frank Black Deadman s… … Wikipedia
Tautochrone curve — 300px|right|thumb|Four points run over a cycloid from different positions, but theyarrive at the bottom at the same time. The blue arrows show the points acceleration. On the top is the time position diagram.A tautochrone or isochrone curve is… … Wikipedia
Human height — Tall redirects here. For other uses, see Tall (disambiguation). Human height is the distance from the bottom of the feet to the top of the head in a human body standing erect. When populations share genetic background and environmental factors,… … Wikipedia
human development — ▪ biology Introduction the process of growth and change that takes place between birth and maturity. Human growth is far from being a simple and uniform process of becoming taller or larger. As a child (child development) gets bigger,… … Universalium
analysis — /euh nal euh sis/, n., pl. analyses / seez /. 1. the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements (opposed to synthesis). 2. this process as a method of studying the nature of something or of determining its… … Universalium
Milky Way Galaxy — Large spiral galaxy (roughly 150,000 light years in diameter) that contains Earth s solar system. It includes the multitude of stars whose light is seen as the Milky Way, the irregular luminous band that encircles the sky defining the plane of… … Universalium
Constitutional growth delay — (CGD) is a term describing a temporary delay in the skeletal growth and thus height of a child with no other physical abnormalities causing the delay. Short stature may be the result of a growth pattern inherited from a parent (familial) or occur … Wikipedia
star — starless, adj. /stahr/, n., adj., v., starred, starring. n. 1. any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night. 2. Astron. any of the large, self luminous, heavenly bodies, as the sun, Polaris,… … Universalium
International Ultraviolet Explorer — (IUE) puic|1=|log=2008 August 31Organization(NASA, ESA, Science Research Council )Wavelength regimeUltravioletOrbit height42,000 km apogee, 26,000 km perigeeOrbit periodOne day (geosynchronous orbit)Launch dateJanuary 26, 1978End of… … Wikipedia
