Magnuseffect

Magnuseffect
Mag·nus effect (măgʹnəs) n.
The force perpendicular to the forward motion on a spinning object moving through a fluid or gas, as that responsible for the curve on a curve ball.
  [After Heinrich GustavMagnus (1802-1870), German chemist and physicist.]

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