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Comb (other)
A comb is a toothed device used for straightening and cleaning hair or fibers. Comb or COMB may also refer to: * Comb (anatomy), a fleshy growth or crest on the top of the head of certain birds and reptiles * Combe or comb, a small valley without a river * Combing, a method used to straighten fibers for spinning * Comb drive, a linear motor often used in microtechnology * Comb space, a topological space * Honeycomb, an hexagonal wax structure built by bees * Stock (firearms)#Comb, Comb, the raised part of a long gun's buttstock where the shooter rest his/her cheek during aiming See also *Combs (other) *Combe (other) * Combo (other) * Combine (other) * * * combinatio nova or ''comb. nov.'' {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comb
A comb is a tool consisting of a shaft that holds a row of teeth for pulling through the hair to clean, untangle, or style it. Combs have been used since prehistoric times, having been discovered in very refined forms from settlements dating back to 5,000 years ago in Persia. Weaving combs made of whalebone dating to the middle and late Iron Age have been found on archaeological digs in Orkney and Somerset. Description Combs consist of a shaft and teeth that are placed at a perpendicular angle to the shaft. Combs can be made out of a number of materials, most commonly plastic, metal, or wood. In antiquity, horn and whalebone was sometimes used. Combs made from ivory and tortoiseshell were once common but concerns for the animals that produce them have reduced their usage. Wooden combs are largely made of boxwood, cherry wood, or other fine-grained wood. Good quality wooden combs are usually handmade and polished. Combs come in various shapes and sizes depending on what they ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comb (anatomy)
A comb is a fleshy growth or crest on the top of the head of some gallinaceous birds, such as domestic chickens. The alternative name cockscomb (with several spelling variations) reflects the fact that combs are generally larger on cock birds than on hens. The comb is one of several fleshy protuberances on the heads of chickens, the others being the wattles and earlobes, which collectively are called caruncles. In turkeys, the caruncles are the fleshy nodules on the head and throat. Chicken combs are most commonly red, but may also be black or dark purple in breeds such as the Silkie or the Sebright. In other species the color may vary from light grey to deep blue or red. The comb may be a reliable indicator of health or vigor and is used for mate-assessment in some poultry species. Types of chicken comb Comb shape varies considerably depending on the breed or species of bird. Of the many types and shapes seen in chicken cocks the principal ones are: * the single comb, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Combe
A combe (; also spelled coombe or coomb and, in place names, comb) can refer either to a steep, narrow valley, or to a small valley or large hollow on the side of a hill; in any case, it is often understood simply to mean a small valley through which a watercourse ''does not'' run. The word "combe" derives from Old English ''cumb'', of the same meaning, and is unrelated to the English word "comb". It derives ultimately from the same Brythonic source as the Welsh '' cwm'', which has the same meaning. Today, the word is used mostly in reference to the combes of southern and southwestern England. Examples The following is a list places in the British Isles The British Isles are a group of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-western coast of continental Europe, consisting of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Inner and Outer Hebrides, the Northern Isles, ... named for having combes: References {{reflist Valleys Slope landforms [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Combing
Combing is a method for preparing carded fibre for spinning. Combing is divided into linear and circular combing. The Noble comb is an example of circular combing. The French comb is an example of linear combing. The process of combing is accompanied by ''gilling'', a process of evening out carded or combed top making it suitable for spinning. Combing separates out short fibres by means of a rotating ring or rectilinear row of steel pins. The fibres in the 'top' it produces have been straightened and lie parallel to each other. When combing wool, the discarded short fibres are called noils, and are ground up into shoddy. In general, there are two main systems of preparing fibre for yarn: the worsted system and the woollen system. The worsted system is defined by the removal of short fibres by combing and top preparation by gilling. In the woollen system, short fibres are retained, and it may or may not involve combing. Description The circular combs used have long metal tee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comb Drive
Comb-drives are microelectromechanical actuators, often used as linear actuators, which utilize electrostatic forces that act between two electrically conductive combs. Comb drive actuators typically operate at the micro- or nanometer scale and are generally manufactured by bulk micromachining or surface micromachining a silicon wafer substrate. The attractive electrostatic forces are created when a voltage is applied between the static and moving combs causing them to be drawn together. The force developed by the actuator is proportional to the change in capacitance between the two combs, increasing with driving voltage, the number of comb teeth, and the gap between the teeth. The combs are arranged so that they never touch (because then there would be no voltage difference). Typically the teeth are arranged so that they can slide past one another until each tooth occupies the slot in the opposite comb. Restoring springs, levers, and crankshafts can be added if the motor's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comb Space
In mathematics, particularly topology, a comb space is a particular subspace of \R^2 that resembles a comb. The comb space has properties that serve as a number of counterexamples. The topologist's sine curve has similar properties to the comb space. The deleted comb space is a variation on the comb space. Formal definition Consider \R^2 with its standard topology and let ''K'' be the set \. The set ''C'' defined by: :(\ \times ,1) \cup (K \times ,1 \cup ( ,1\times \) considered as a subspace of \R^2 equipped with the subspace topology is known as the comb space. The deleted comb space, D, is defined by: :\ \cup (K \times ,1 \cup ( ,1\times \) . This is the comb space with the line segment \ \times contractible,_but_not_locally_contractible,_Locally_connected_space.html" "title="Contractible_space.html" "title="locally_connected_space.html" "title=",1) deleted. Topological properties The comb space and the deleted comb space have some interesting topological prope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honeycomb
A honeycomb is a mass of Triangular prismatic honeycomb#Hexagonal prismatic honeycomb, hexagonal prismatic Beeswax, wax cells built by honey bees in their beehive, nests to contain their larvae and stores of honey and pollen. beekeeping, Beekeepers may remove the entire honeycomb to harvest honey. Honey bees consume about of honey to secrete of wax, and so beekeepers may return the wax to the hive after harvesting the honey to improve honey outputs. The structure of the comb may be left basically intact when honey is extracted from it by uncapping and spinning in a centrifugal machine, more specifically a honey extractor. If the honeycomb is too worn out, the wax can be reused in a number of ways, including making sheets of comb Wax foundation, foundation with hexagonal pattern. Such foundation sheets allow the bees to build the comb with less effort, and the hexagonal pattern of worker-sized cell bases discourages the bees from building the larger Drone (bee), drone cells. Fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stock (firearms)
A gunstock or often simply stock, the back portion of which is also known as a shoulder stock, a buttstock or simply a butt, is a part of a long gun that provides structural support, to which the barrel, action, and firing mechanism are attached. The stock also provides a means for the shooter to firmly brace the gun and easily aim with stability by being held against the user's shoulder when shooting the gun, and helps to counter muzzle rise by transmitting recoil straight into the shooter's body. The tiller of a crossbow is functionally the equivalent of the stock on a gun. History and etymology The term stock in reference to firearms dates to 1571 is derived from the Germanic word ''Stock'', meaning tree trunk, referring to the wooden nature of the gunstock. Early hand cannons used a simple stick fitted into a socket in the breech end to provide a handle. The modern gunstock shape began to evolve with the introduction of the arquebus, a matchlock with a longer barrel a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Combs (other)
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Combs may refer to: Places France * Combs-la-Ville, a commune in the southeastern suburbs of Paris United Kingdom *Combs, Derbyshire, England *Combs, Suffolk, England United States *Combs, Arkansas, a community *Combs, Kentucky, a community *Combs Township, Carroll County, Missouri Other uses *Comb, plural form *Combs (surname) See also *Comb (other) *Combes (other) * Justice Combs (other) * Coombs (other) * Cwm (other) * Coombes Coombes is a hamlet and civil parish in the Adur District of West Sussex, England. The village is in the Adur Valley northwest of Shoreham-by-Sea. Coombes Church is an 11th-century Church of England parish church that has lost its dedicatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Combe (other)
A combe can refer either to a steep, narrow valley, or to a small valley or large hollow on the side of a hill. Combe may also refer to: English place names * Combe, Berkshire * Combe, Buckfastleigh, Devon * Combe, Yealmpton, Devon * Combe, Herefordshire * Combe, Oxfordshire * Combe, Somerset Places in England with combe as one word in part of their name Cumbria * Black Combe Devon * Combe Fishacre * Combe Martin * Combe Pafford * Combe Raleigh * Ilfracombe * Chambercombe * Woolacombe * Slewton Combe * In Torquay, Devon ** Ellacombe, Devon ** Babbacombe ** Maidencombe Dorset * Combe Almer Hereford * Combe Moor Oxford * Combe Longa, Oxfordshire Somerset * Combe Down * Combe Florey * Combe Hay * Combe St Nicholas * Combe Throop/Templecombe * Monkton Combe Surrey * Combe Common Wiltshire * Castle Combe Other uses * Combe (surname) * Combe (Middle-earth), a fictional village in J. R. R. Tolkien's writings * Combe (mythology), name of a character i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Combo (other)
Combo may refer to: Technology *Combo television unit, a television with either a VCR or a DVD player built into a single unit * Combo drive, a type of optical drive that can read CDs and DVDs *A guitar amplifier incorporating one or more loudspeakers in the same case as the electronics *Combo organ, a type of portable electronic organ popular in the 1960s *Combo box, a widget in computer graphics * Combo washer dryer, a combination in a single cabinet of a washing machine and a clothes dryer *Opel Combo, a van produced by Opel since 1994 Other uses *A small musical ensemble **Popular beat combo, a synonym for pop group which has become a British cliché *Combination meal, a group of menu items offered together at a lower price than they would cost individually *Combos, a brand of snack food *COMBO, or COMBO Culture Kidnapper, a French street artist *Combo (video gaming), a combination of moves used in computer games * Striking combination, a combination of strikes *T.J. Combo, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Combine (other)
Combine may refer to: Machinery * Combine harvester, or combine, a machine to harvest grain crops * Combine seeder, or combine, a machine to plant seeds Company structure * Corporate group, an industrial business group in Western democracies * Combine (Soviet enterprise), an industrial business group in socialist countries, particularly the former Soviet Union Places * Combine, Texas, U.S. Sports * A sports combine, an event held by certain professional sports leagues to evaluate prospective players, such as: ** AFL Draft Combine in Australian rules football ** CFL Combine in Canadian football ** NBA Draft Combine in basketball ** NFL Scouting Combine in American football Other * Combine car, or combine, a type of railroad car which combines sections for passengers and freight * Combine painting, a type of artwork * COMBINE, a computational biology initiative * Combine (Half-Life), a fictional alien enemy force from the ''Half-Life'' video game series * The Combin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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