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Flash lock — Early locks were designed with a single gate, known as a flash lock. The gate was a set of boards, called paddles , supported against the current by upright timbers called rymers . Boats moving downstream would wait above the lock until the… … Wikipedia
flash-lock — /flash lok /, n. stanch1 (def. 5) … Useful english dictionary
flash lock — noun (Waterways) A simple single gate lock on a river or canal … Wiktionary
Lock Wood Island — is an island in the River Thames in England just downstream of Nuneham House on the reach above Abingdon Lock.The island sits on a sharp bend in the river. It is densely covered with tall trees and has a narrow channel behind it. In the… … Wikipedia
Lock (water transport) — Canal lock and lock keeper s cottage on the Aylesbury Arm of the Grand Union Canal at Marsworth in Hertfordshire, England … Wikipedia
flash in the pan — ► flash in the pan a sudden but brief success. [ORIGIN: with allusion to the priming of a firearm, the flash arising from an explosion of gunpowder within the lock.] Main Entry: ↑flash … English terms dictionary
Flash (comics) — Infobox comics set index imagesize= 212 caption= Jay Garrick, Bart Allen, and Wally West on the cover to The Flash (vol. 2) #208. Art by Michael Turner. code name=Flash publisher= DC Comics debut= Flash Comics #1 (January 1940) creators= Gardner… … Wikipedia
Flash memory — Computer memory types Volatile RAM DRAM (e.g., DDR SDRAM) SRAM In development T RAM Z RAM TTRAM Historical Delay line memory Selectron tube Williams tube Non volatile … Wikipedia
Flash (photography) — The furious wing action of a Hummingbird Hawk moth is frozen by flash. The flash has given the foreground more illumination than the background. See Inverse square law A flash is a device used in photography producing a flash of artificial light… … Wikipedia
Lock-in-Effekt — In den Wirtschaftswissenschaften werden als Lock in Effekt (von to lock in: einschließen, einsperren) Kosten bezeichnet, die eine Änderung der aktuellen Situation aufgrund hoher Wechselkosten unwirtschaftlich machen. Die Höhe der Wechselkosten… … Deutsch Wikipedia
