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definition of drop To be deep in extent; to descend perpendicularly; as, her main topsail drops seventeen yards. That which resembles, or that which hangs like, a liquid drop; as a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant on a chandelier, a sugarplum (sometimes medicated), or a kind of shot or slug. To pour or let fall in drops; to pour in small globules; to distill. www.brainydictionary.com /words/dr/drop157392.html   (440 words)

Search The Llewellyn Encyclopedia: Apache Tear Drop Apache tear drop is a form of black obsidian. The Apache tear drops are also said to balance the emotional nature and protect There is a haunting legend about the Apache tear drop. www.llewellynencyclopedia.com /term/Apache+Tear+Drop   (407 words)

ipedia.com: Oil-drop experiment Article A version of the oil drop experment has subsequently been used to search for free quarks (which, if they exist, would have a charge of 1/3 e), without success. The purpose of Robert Millikan 's oil-drop experiment was to measure the electric charge of the electron. He did this by carefully balancing the gravitational and electric forcess on tiny charged drop... www.ipedia.com /oil_drop_experiment.html   (246 words)

Shape - Drop Point - Encyclopedia - Beckwith's Blades Shape - Drop Point - Encyclopedia - Beckwith's Blades This is a classic blade shape and tends to be very common among all Manufacturers. Web site design and development by Nurick + Associates - All Rights Reserved www.beckwithsblades.com /encyclopedia.cfm?Term=18   (64 words)

Drop bear - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Drop bear mythology may have its origins with the Phascolarctos stirtoni, the carnivorous Phascolarctos involus or perhaps the Thylacoleo carnifex, which belong to a group of extinct animals known as Australian megafauna. Drop bears are commonly said to be unusually large, vicious, carnivorous koalas that inhabit treetops and attack their prey by dropping onto their heads from above. Stories of drop bears are often related to unsuspecting foreign visitors to illustrate Australian deadpan humour. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Drop_Bear   (576 words)

Drop - Top Encyclopedia on Gambling Look for casino terms, Drop, poker terms and more! You have entered the best encyclopedia on gambling! www.gambling-portal.com /gambling-terms/Drop.html   (26 words)

Drop shipment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Drop shipment or [drop shipping] is a type of retailing where the retailer does not keep goods in stock, but instead passes the customer's order and shipment details to the wholesaler, who then dispatches the goods to the customer directly. Yet another version of drop shipping is the practice of using private freight carriers to transport large volume items direct from the manufacturer to a postal facility close to the location of the end recipients (as opposed to dropping the items at a postal facility close to the manufacturer). Drop shipping can occur when a retailer (who typically sells in small quantities to the general public) receives a single large order for a product. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Drop_shipment   (673 words)

Magical Drop 3 Review Magical Drop III is one of the fastest puzzle games, period, and players will often feel like they're just barely hanging on--which is a very good thing. Magical Drop III makes for a fitting, satisfying final game in the series simply because it gets everything right. The setup of Magical Drop III is the same as Magical Drop II--a Tetris-inspired puzzle game featuring characters from tarot cards as the players. www.neo-geo.com /reviews/neo-reviews/md3/md3.html   (673 words)

Drop (liquid) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Drops may also be formed by the condensation of a supercooled vapor or by atomization of a larger mass of liquid. The simplest way to form a drop is to allow liquid to flow slowly from the lower end of a vertical tube of small diameter. A drop is a small volume of liquid, bounded completely or almost completely by free surfaces. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Drop_(liquid)   (197 words)

Drop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia in breakdancing, a drop is a move to transition from toprock to downrock. a drop noseband is a type of noseband used on the bridle of a horse a drop, or a length-to-weight relation for baseball bats. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Drop   (307 words)

Drop kick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The drop kick and stab pass gradually disappeared from the game by the 1980s, as it was unreliable, particularly on wet grounds, and players were coached to always use the drop punt kicking style to avoid having to make a decision on what kind of kick to perform. The only execution of the drop kick in the modern-day NFL was by Doug Flutie, quarterback of the New England Patriots, against the Miami Dolphins on January 1, 2006 for a point after touchdown (i.e., counting for 1 point). The drop kick was supplanted by the place kick, which cannot be attempted out of a formation generally used as a running or passing set. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Drop_kick   (790 words)

Field goal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A drop goal is worth three points in rugby union and one point in rugby league (in league, more commonly known as a field goal); conversions are worth two points in both codes. A field goal or drop goal is scored by drop kicking the ball above the crossbar and between the uprights. A field goal may be scored only by a place kick or drop kick. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Field_goal   (623 words)

ELECTROTHERAPEUTICS - LoveToKnow Article on ELECTROTHERAPEUTICS Wrist drop from lead poisoning and lead neuritis of all kinds, reflex muscular atrophy and the muscular wasting of hemiplegia, are all benefited by the continuous current; the severe pain. 97.1911encyclopedia.org /E/EL/ELECTROTHERAPEUTICS.htm   (623 words)

Registrar's Office - Drop/Add Dropping all of your classes constitutes a withdrawal from school. The drop fee will be charged only during the period from after the 10th instructional day of the semester through the end of the eighth week of that term. The "drop" period is the first 8 weeks of the semester. www.uwplatt.edu /registrar/drop.html   (300 words)

Drop Bear - Uncyclopedia The primary prey of Drop Bears are unsuspecting German tourists, and it is commonly understood that they favour those with cameras, due to the entrancing reflection of the sun's rays from the glass lenses thereof. Drop Bears are notoriously hard to spot whilst in their natural habitat as their fur camouflages well with the olive grey hue of the foliage. Drop Bears spend most of the time high amongst the tree tops except when they are dropping (from where they got their name) out of trees to latch onto their unsuspecting prey. uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Drop_Bear   (830 words)

Drop D Tuning - Guitar Powerchords To play in a drop D tuning, the large string E is lowered in tuning by a whole step from E to D. This example shows the names of the notes when played in a standard E tuning. Example #2 When playing these notes in a drop D tuning, all notes are lowered in tuning by a whole step as shown below. As a follow up to lesson 02-07-2005, this lesson explores powerchords in a drop D tuning. www.guitartabbooks.com /freelessons/dropdtuning.htm   (830 words)

Hand drop Wrist drop (Med.), paralysis of the extensor muscles of the hand, affecting the hand so that when an attempt is made to hold it out in line with the forearm with the palm down, the hand drops. Bridle wrist, the wrist of the left hand, in which a horseman holds the bridle. [1913 Webster] Bridle wrist, the wrist of the left hand, in which a horseman holds the bridle. dictionaries.cc /Hand_drop   (830 words)

- Northwestern Memorial Hospital - Chicago Wrist drop or finger drop may be present, or there may be atrophy (muscle loss) of some of the muscles of the forearm. There may be weakness of the wrist and finger extension muscles (with decreased ability to extend the arm at the elbow), a minor decreased ability to rotate the arm outward (supination), and difficulty lifting the wrist or fingers (extensor muscle weakness). Prolonged or repeated constriction of the wrist (caused by wearing a tight watch strap, for example) can also cause an injury to terminal portions of the radial nerve. www.heart.nmh.org /nmh/adam/adamencyclopedia/HIEArticles/000790.htm   (830 words)

Drop (unit) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The drop is a unit of measure of volume. It is a variable amount of fluid and depends on the device and technique used to produce the drop and on the pyrotechnic properties of the fluid. This is similar to units like the cup, tablespoon, and teaspoon that depend on the spoon or cup and are not exact either. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Drop_(unit)   (103 words)

Category:Telecommunications - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In practice it also recognizes that something may be lost in the process; hence the term 'telecommunication' covers all forms of distance and/or conversion of the original communications, including radio, telegraphy, television, telephony, data communication and computer networking. Telecommunication is the extension of communication over any distance. When there is consensus that the problems mentioned on the talk page have been resolved, this notice can be removed. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:Telecommunications   (145 words)

3384 - Needle Drop on Spruce Natural needle drop on pines, particularly on white pines in the fall, can be very obvious and may cause you concern if you are not familiar with it. An individual needle will naturally stay on a spruce branch for 2-3 years, and then turn brown before dropping. Needles may turn brown and drop on spruce trees for several reasons. www.mobot.org /gardeninghelp/hortline/messages/3384.shtml   (577 words)

How to make CSS Drop Caps Drop caps can be a great way of breaking up long pages of text or adding big drama to a single paragrah presentation, but, frankly, most of the CSS drop caps I've seen look like doodie (and I don't mean that in a 'good' way). So if you make the drop cap (that's going to be three lines deep) 3x the line height of body text, and then add 22%, the drop cap should snuggle pretty perfectly into its little space. The most important thing to take into consideration when setting up your drop cap is the line-height of the surrounding text and the line height of the drop cap. www.citrusmoon.net /dropcaps.html   (577 words)

Drop Bear - TheBestLinks.com - Drop bear, Australia, Koala, North America, ... Some localised variants of drop bear lore suggest that the liberal application of Vegemite to exposed areas of the body is an effective form of repellant. Like the jackalope in the US west, the drop bear is a part of local lore that is used to frighten and confuse outsiders and amuse locals. A Drop Bear (or Dropbear), Phascolarctus Bityness, is a mythical Australian marsupial supposedly related to the Koala. www.thebestlinks.com /Drop_bear.html   (212 words)

Injuries to the Brachial Plexus Wrist drop is caused by injury to the posterior cord and the radial nerve in the axilla. However, pronation of the forearm, flexion of the wrist and digits, and movement of the thumb are severely affected. The pronator muscles of the forearm and the long flexors of the wrist and fingers will be paralyzed, except for the flexor carpi ulnaris and medial half of the flexor digitorum profundus. info.med.yale.edu /anatomy/notes/upper-limb8-3.html   (212 words)

Voltage Drop The factors that affect voltage drop are the load (wattage), the length of the wiring run, the voltage at the transformer, and the size of the wire. If the output voltage is 12 volts or less and the length of the run results in excessive voltage drop, you may want to use a multi-tap transformer that has outputs of more than 12 volts. The type with several terminals allow you to have shorter runs that are not affected by voltage drop receive only 12 volts while the longer runs can be connected to the higher voltage terminals. www.backyardamerica.com /voltage_drop.html   (627 words)

Voltage Drop Calculator An interesting corollary is that the line voltage doubles (240 instead of 120volts) the voltage drop decreases by a factor of 4. There are many more conditions that will change the voltage drop such as the soil type, (sand, wet, clay) which will change the temperature, or if the wire will be in metal or plastic conduit all of which will change the voltage drop. Please Note: use of this voltage drop table is for a rule of thumb. www.stanselectric.com /vdrop.html   (240 words)

Elite Software - V-Drop The voltage drop values are calculated on a "per segment" and "cumulative" basis and then printed as a percentage of the source voltage and as an absolute voltage drop in volts. Voltage transformers in the one-line diagram may be accounted for as correction devices with no voltage drops, or as simple loaded components. These voltage drops are listed on both a "per segment" and "cumulative" basis as a percentage of the source voltage and as an absolute voltage drop in volts. www.elitesoft.com /web/electrical/elite_vdrop_info.html   (1043 words)

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