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21strait-jacket — confining jacket with long sleeves used to restrain potentially violent patients or prisoners …
22rock — rock1 rockless, adj. rocklike, adj. /rok/, n. 1. a large mass of stone forming a hill, cliff, promontory, or the like. 2. Geol. a. mineral matter of variable composition, consolidated or unconsolidated, assembled in masses or considerable… …
23Rock — /rok/, n. a male given name. * * * I In geology, a naturally occurring and coherent aggregate of minerals. The three major classes of rock igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic are based on the processes that formed them. These three classes are… …
24Aquifer — Typical aquifer cross section An aquifer is a wet underground layer of water bearing permeable rock or unconsolidated materials (gravel, sand, or silt) from which groundwater can be usefully extracted using a water well. The study of water flow… …
25't Hooft operator — In theoretical physics, a t Hooft operator, introduced by Gerard t Hooft in the 1978 paper On the phase transition towards permanent quark confinement is a dual version of the Wilson loop in which the electromagnetic potential A is replaced by… …
26Color confinement — The color force favors confinement because at a certain range it is more energetically favorable to create a quark antiquark pair than to continue to elongate the color flux tube. This is analoguous to the behavior of an elongated rubber band …
27Sleepsack (BDSM) — Sleepsacks are a popular type of bondage (BDSM) gear. Sleepsacks are primarily used to confine a person comfortably for an extended period of time. [http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/encyclopervia/Sleep sack] Similar to a conventional sleeping bag …
28Direct shear test — A direct shear test also known as shearbox test is a laboratory or field test used by geotechnical engineers to measure the shear strength properties of soil[1][2] or rock[2] material, or of discontinuties in soil or rock masses.[3] …
29Slot-waveguide — A slot waveguide is an optical waveguide that guides strongly confined light in a subwavelength scale low refractive index region by total internal reflection.A slot waveguide consists of two strips or slabs of high refractive index (nH)… …
30close — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. compact, dense, firm; stifling, oppressive, muggy, stale, stuffy; stingy, tight fisted, niggardly; taut; confining, constrictive; near, intimate; secretive, reticent, reserved; approximate. See… …
