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Sink (other)
A sink is a bowl-shaped fixture used for washing hands or small objects. Sink may also refer to: Music *Sink (Floater album), ''Sink'' (Floater album), an album released by rock band Floater in September 1994. *Sink (Foetus album), ''Sink'' (Foetus album), an album released by solo musical project Foetus Inc in October 1989. *Sink, a late 80s/early 90s UK punk band led by Ed Wenn after leaving The Stupids (band), The Stupids. People * Alex Sink (born 1948), Adelaide "Alex" Sink, Chief Financial Officer of the state of Florida * Mark Sink, (born 1958), American photographer * Robert Sink (1905–1965), senior United States Army officer * Sadie Sink (born 2002), American actress * Sink Izumi, the lead character in the anime series ''Dog Days (Japanese TV series), Dog Days'' Science * Sink (biology), a target tissue of (photosynthetic) metabolites; see Phloem loading * Sink (computing), an object implementing the interface to receive incoming events * Sink (geography), an area of d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sink
A sink is a bowl-shaped plumbing fixture for washing hands, dishwashing, and other purposes. Sinks have a tap (faucet) that supply hot and cold water and may include a spray feature to be used for faster rinsing. They also include a drain to remove used water; this drain may itself include a strainer and/or shut-off device and an overflow-prevention device. Sinks may also have an integrated soap dispenser. Many sinks, especially in kitchens, are installed adjacent to or inside a counter. When a sink becomes clogged, a person will often resort to using a chemical drain cleaner or a plunger, though most professional plumbers will remove the clog with a ''drain auger'' (often called a "plumber's snake"). History United States The washstand was a bathroom sink made in the United States in the late 18th century.Sinks ''The Old-House Journal''; Augu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flow Network
In graph theory, a flow network (also known as a transportation network) is a directed graph where each edge has a capacity and each edge receives a flow. The amount of flow on an edge cannot exceed the capacity of the edge. Often in operations research, a directed graph is called a network, the vertices are called nodes and the edges are called arcs. A flow must satisfy the restriction that the amount of flow into a node equals the amount of flow out of it, unless it is a source, which has only outgoing flow, or sink, which has only incoming flow. A network can be used to model traffic in a computer network, circulation with demands, fluids in pipes, currents in an electrical circuit, or anything similar in which something travels through a network of nodes. Definition A network is a graph , where is a set of vertices and is a set of 's edges – a subset of – together with a non-negative function , called the capacity function. Without loss of generality, we may assume that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carbon Dioxide Sink
A carbon sink is anything, natural or otherwise, that accumulates and stores some carbon-containing chemical compound for an indefinite period and thereby removes carbon dioxide () from the atmosphere. Globally, the two most important carbon sinks are vegetation and the ocean. Public awareness of the significance of sinks has grown since passage of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which promotes their use as a form of carbon offset. There are also different strategies used to enhance this process. Soil is an important carbon storage medium. Much of the organic carbon retained in the soil of agricultural areas has been depleted due to intensive farming. " Blue carbon" designates carbon that is fixed via the ocean ecosystems. Mangroves, salt marshes and seagrasses make up a majority of ocean plant life and store large quantities of carbon. Many efforts are being made to enhance natural sequestration in soils and the oceans. In addition, a range of artificial sequestration initiatives ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinks Canyon State Park
Sinks Canyon State Park is a public recreation and nature preservation area located in the Wind River Mountains, southwest of Lander, Wyoming, Lander, Wyoming, on Wyoming Highway 131. The state park is named for a portion of the Middle Fork Popo Agie River, Middle Fork of the Popo Agie River where it flows into an underground limestone cavern, named "the Sinks," and emerges a quarter-mile down the canyon in a pool named "the Rise." The park is managed by the Wyoming Division of State Parks and Historic Sites. History Human activity in Sinks Canyon goes back thousands of years. Archaeological digs have found hearths and tools carbon dated as far back as the Last glacial period, last ice age. Since the late 19th century, the canyon and its river have been utilized for a variety of purposes. A saw mill, small hydroelectric dam and power plant, and ski area have all operated in the canyon. ;Power plant A hydroelectric dam and power plant were built in the canyon in the late 1910s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinking (other)
Sinking may refer to: * Sinking of a ship; see shipwrecking * Being submerged * ''Sinking'' (album), a 1996 studio album by The Aloof * Sinking (behavior), the act of pouring out champagne in the sink * Sinking (metalworking), a metalworking technique * ''Sinking'' (novella), a 1921 novella by Yu Dafu * "Sinking", a song by No Doubt from the album No Doubt (No Doubt album) * "Sinking", a song by Jars of Clay from the album Jars of Clay (album) * Sinking Creek (other), several creeks * Well drilling * Shaft sinking, the process of digging a shaft in shaft mining See also * Sink condition (pharmaceutics), a required condition during chemical dissolution tests * Hsinking, former name of the Chinese city Changchun * Sink (other) A sink is a bowl-shaped fixture used for washing hands or small objects. Sink may also refer to: Music *Sink (Floater album), ''Sink'' (Floater album), an album released by rock band Floater in September 1994. *Sink (Foetus album), ''Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sink, West Virginia
Sink was an unincorporated community in Raleigh County, West Virginia West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographers classify West Virginia as part of the Southern United States while the Bur ..., United States. It was located 5.5 miles southeast of Shady Spring. References Unincorporated communities in West Virginia {{RaleighCountyWV-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sink (champagne)
() is the act of pouring out champagne in the sink. Sinking probably started in Sweden as "a reaction to the ban on spraying champagne in many bars" and the sinking is usually done by a person ordering two bottles of champagne and asking the bartender to pour out (sink) one of them.Johan Åkesson"Vaskning är bratsens provokation" (Eng. ”Sinking is the brats’ provocation”) ''Dagens Nyheter'', 2 August 2010 The term "sinking" is a translation of the Swedish term, "vaskning," derived from "vask," which means "sink". Background In 2007 and 2010 respectively, bars in the Swedish cities of Båstad and Visby, popular party destinations for the wealthy youth, banned the spraying of champagne. The ban referred to champagne spraying possibly violating the law’s requirement on servers of alcohol to maintain good order. The ban caused some people to sink the champagne instead, while others chose to buy more expensive champagne.Josefine Hökerberg"Vaskning – myt eller trend?" (Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heat Sink
A heat sink (also commonly spelled heatsink) is a passive heat exchanger that transfers the heat generated by an electronic or a mechanical device to a fluid medium, often air or a liquid coolant, where it is dissipated away from the device, thereby allowing regulation of the device's temperature. In computers, heat sinks are used to cool CPUs, GPUs, and some chipsets and RAM modules. Heat sinks are used with high-power semiconductor devices such as power transistors and optoelectronics such as lasers and light-emitting diodes (LEDs), where the heat dissipation ability of the component itself is insufficient to moderate its temperature. A heat sink is designed to maximize its surface area in contact with the cooling medium surrounding it, such as the air. Air velocity, choice of material, protrusion design and surface treatment are factors that affect the performance of a heat sink. Heat sink attachment methods and thermal interface materials also affect the die temperature of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Current Sources And Sinks
In electromagnetism, current sources and sinks are analysis formalisms which distinguish points, areas, or volumes through which electric current enters or exits a system. While current sources or sinks are abstract elements used for analysis, generally they have physical counterparts in real-world applications; e.g. the anode or cathode in a battery. In all cases, each of the opposing terms (source or sink) may refer to the same object, depending on the perspective of the observer and the sign convention being used; there is no intrinsic difference between a source and a sink. Current sources and sinks in neurobiology Current sources and sinks have proven to be very valuable in the study of brain function. Both have particular relevance in electrophysiology. Two examples of the study of sources and sinks are electroencephalography (EEG) and current source density analysis (extracellular field potentials), but have also shown enhancements in spatio-temporal resolution of EEG. Cur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinkhole
A sinkhole is a depression or hole in the ground caused by some form of collapse of the surface layer. The term is sometimes used to refer to doline, enclosed depressions that are locally also known as ''vrtače'' and shakeholes, and to openings where surface water enters into underground passages known as ''ponor'', swallow hole or swallet. A ''cenote'' is a type of sinkhole that exposes groundwater underneath. A ''sink'' or ''stream sink'' are more general terms for sites that drain surface water, possibly by infiltration into sediment or crumbled rock. Most sinkholes are caused by karst processes – the chemical dissolution of carbonate rocks, collapse or suffosion processes. Sinkholes are usually circular and vary in size from tens to hundreds of meters both in diameter and depth, and vary in form from soil-lined bowls to bedrock-edged chasms. Sinkholes may form gradually or suddenly, and are found worldwide. Formation Natural processes Sinkholes may capture surf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Attractor
In the mathematical field of dynamical systems, an attractor is a set of states toward which a system tends to evolve, for a wide variety of starting conditions of the system. System values that get close enough to the attractor values remain close even if slightly disturbed. In finite-dimensional systems, the evolving variable may be represented algebraically as an ''n''-dimensional vector. The attractor is a region in ''n''-dimensional space. In physical systems, the ''n'' dimensions may be, for example, two or three positional coordinates for each of one or more physical entities; in economic systems, they may be separate variables such as the inflation rate and the unemployment rate. If the evolving variable is two- or three-dimensional, the attractor of the dynamic process can be represented geometrically in two or three dimensions, (as for example in the three-dimensional case depicted to the right). An attractor can be a point, a finite set of points, a curve, a manif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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