The gyre, which lies between Hawaii and California, is formed by rotating ocean currents and has, over the past 50 plus years, become a reservoir for plastic litter of all sizes. From Popular-Science Side 2 sends Barnes into the twisty, noisy gyre of a 12-minute track called “The Past...
nounInanatomy, a gyrus: as, a cerebralgyre. To turn; gyrate; revolve. To turn. from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English. nounA circular motion, or a circle described by a moving body; a turn or revolution; a circuit. ...
(General Physics) a device containing a disc rotating on an axis that can turn freely in any direction so that the disc resists the action of an applied couple and tends to maintain the same orientation in space irrespective of the movement of the surrounding structure. Sometimes shortened to:...
PacificSubtropical Gyres, whose eastern “garbage patches” (zones with high concentrations of plastic waste circulating near the ocean surface) have garnered the attention of scientists and the media. The other gyres are the North and SouthAtlanticSubtropical Gyres and theIndian OceanSubtropical Gyre....
9 RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook gyrolite Wikipedia (ˈdʒaɪrəʊˌlaɪt) n (Geological Science)mineralogycalcium silicate hydroxide in a hydrated form Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © Har...
FromScience Daily MRI scans revealed that most of the brain activity was concentrated in the angular gyrus, a portion of the parietal lobe of the brain. FromSalon The analysis points to involvement of areas within the frontolimbic brain regions, such as the inferior and middle frontal gyri, in...
IN this well-lovedscience fictionclassic, Heinlein describes a young man raised by Martians who returns to live on Earth. He understands the world very differently from his friends and shares with them much ofMartianculture. There are a few examples of neologisms in this novel, but the most ...
The first is a simplified dynamical model of a double-gyre flow. The second is surface current data collected by high-frequency radar stations along the coast of Florida and the third is unsteady separation over an airfoil. In all cases, the existence of LCSs governs the transport and it ...
and the Indian Ocean subtropical gyre. Gyres are highly influenced and shaped by the continents themselves. What is known as the Coriolis effect determines the direction and circular flow of the major gyres. The Coriolis Effect is a deflection of movement caused by the Earth's rotation or spin...
(redirected from Gyrefalcon)Also found in: Thesaurus, Encyclopedia. Related to Gyrefalcon: peregrine falconfal·con (făl′kən, fôl′-, fô′kən) n. 1. a. Any of various birds of prey of the family Falconidae and especially of the genus Falco, having a short, curved beak...