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Dangling Bonds In Amorphous Silicon
Dangle, dangler or dangling may refer to: * Dangler (plot device), an unresolved plot line in a story * Dangle (espionage), an agent of one side who pretends to be interested in defecting to another side * Dangle, a type of earring * Dangle, in ice hockey, a variety of moves where a player dekes (fakes) out a goalie or player (it originally meant to skate fast with the puck) * Dangle, in lacrosse, a complete defeat of a defender or goalie achieved by performing complex stick moves and tricks * Dangle (surname) See also * Dangling bond, an unsatisfied valence on an immobilized atom * Dangling else, a problem in the programming of parser generators * Dangling modifier (or dangling participle), a type of misplaced grammatical phrase * Dangling pointer Dangling pointers and wild pointers in computer programming are pointers that do not point to a valid object of the appropriate type. These are special cases of memory safety violations. More generally, dangling references and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dangler (plot Device)
Dangler is a literary term meaning a plotline that is metaphorically left to "dangle" or "hang". A ''dangler'', or ''dangling plotline'', is a plot device in fiction where a plotline is forgotten, phased out and eventually dropped, thus a resolution is never achieved. Although dangling plotlines can occur in all forms of media, they typically appear in comic books, movies and book sequels, where the original writer or creative team can be replaced. Reasons for danglers Typically, a writer will pepper the main story with smaller back-stories. It then becomes evident to the reader that these smaller back-stories have the potential to build up into a bigger story and reach a conclusion of some sort. Editorial mandate can also force a writer to drop a building plotline due to fan backlash or an editor's lack of interest to pursue such a plot. Examples of danglers In television, when a creative team fears that their show may not be picked up for another season, they will end th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dangle (espionage)
Dangle (''podstava'' in Russian intelligence jargon and ''chèvre'' in French police and intelligence jargon''Jargon Policier (Police Française)'', Sébastien Burneauavailable online on Knol.) is a term used in intelligence work to refer to an agent or officer of one intelligence agency or group who pretends to be interested in defecting or ''turning'' to another intelligence agency or group. The goal of a dangle is to convince the second or foreign intelligence agency that they have changed loyalties by offering to act as a double agent. The dangle then feeds information to their original agency and/or gives disinformation to the second or foreign intelligence agency. The KGB believed that most dangles: # would not come into a USSR government building with sensitive papers # would not directly ask for money right away instead # most walk ins would come in saying they wanted to be a spy for ideological An ideology is a set of beliefs or values attributed to a person or group o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earring
Earrings are jewelry that can be worn on one's ears. Earrings are commonly worn in a piercing in the earlobe or another external part of the ear, or by #Clip-on and other non-pierced earrings, some other means, such as stickers or clip-ons. Earrings have been worn across multiple civilizations and historic periods, often carrying a cultural significance. Locations for piercings other than the earlobe include the Rook (piercing), rook, Tragus piercing, tragus, and across the Helix (ear), helix (see image in the infobox). The simple term "ear piercing" usually refers to an earlobe piercing, whereas piercings in the upper part of the Pinna (anatomy), external ear are often referred to as "cartilage piercings". Cartilage piercings are more complex to perform than earlobe piercings and take longer to heal. Earring components may be made of any number of materials, including metal, plastic, glass, gemstone, precious stone, beads, wood, bone, and other materials. Designs range from sma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deke (ice Hockey)
In ice hockey, a deke is a type of feint or fake technique whereby a player draws an opposing player out of position or skates by the opponent while maintaining possession and control of the puck. The term is a Canadianism formed by abbreviating the word ''decoy A decoy (derived from the Dutch ''de'' ''kooi'', literally "the cage" or possibly ''eenden kooi'', " duck cage") is usually a person, device, or event which resembles what an individual or a group might be looking for, but it is only meant to ...''. The position of the player performing the deke and the defender determines where the puck will be moved and the speed. The deke can be used to move the puck out of reach of an opposing player, move the puck past the opposing player, or quickly change direction of the puck so the opposing player is caught out of position. Dekes are usually used in combination with either a change of direction or speed, or both; the deke may refer to the entire sequence of actions as wel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lacrosse
Lacrosse is a contact team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It is the oldest organized sport in North America, with its origins with the indigenous people of North America as early as the 12th century. The game was extensively modified by European colonists, reducing the violence, to create its current collegiate and professional form. Players use the head of the lacrosse stick to carry, pass, catch, and shoot the ball into the goal. The sport has five versions that have different sticks, fields, rules and equipment: field lacrosse, women's lacrosse, box lacrosse, lacrosse sixes and intercrosse. The men's games, field lacrosse (outdoor) and box lacrosse (indoor), are contact sports and all players wear protective gear: helmet, gloves, shoulder pads, and elbow pads. The women's game is played outdoors and does not allow body contact but does allow stick to stick contact. The only protective gear required for women players is eyegear, while go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dangle (surname)
Dangle is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Lloyd Dangle, American writer and artist * Steve Dangle (born 1988), Canadian sports analyst, author, and internet/hockey personality * Lt. Jim Dangle, a ''Reno 911!'' character See also * Marcel Dangles (1899–1974), French footballer {{Surname, Dangle Surnames of French origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dangling Bond
In chemistry, a dangling bond is an unsatisfied Valence (chemistry), valence on an immobilized atom. An atom with a dangling bond is also referred to as an immobilized free radical or an immobilized radical, a reference to its structural and chemical similarity to a free radical. When speaking of a dangling bond, one is generally referring to the state described above, containing one electron and thus leading to a neutrally charged atom. There are also dangling bond defects containing two or no electrons. These are negatively and positively charged respectively. Dangling bonds with two electrons have an energy close to the Valence and conduction bands, valence band of the material and those with none have an energy that is closer to the Valence and conduction bands, conduction band. Properties In order to gain enough electrons to fill their valence shells (see also octet rule), many atoms will form covalent bonds with other atoms. In the simplest case, that of a single bond, tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dangling Else
The dangling else is a problem in programming of parser generators in which an optional else clause in an if–then(–else) statement can make nested conditional statements ambiguous. Formally, the reference context-free grammar of the language is ambiguous, meaning there is more than one correct parse tree. Description In many programming languages, one may write conditionally executed code in two forms: the if-then form, or the if-then-else form. (The else clause is optional.): if a then s if b then s1 else s2 Ambiguous interpretation becomes possible when there are nested statements; specifically when an if-then-else form replaces the statement s inside the above if-then construct: if a then if b then s1 else s2 In this example, s1 gets executed if and only if a is true ''and'' b is true. But what about s2? One person might be sure that s2 gets executed whenever a is false (by attaching the ''else'' to the first ''if''), while another person might be sure that s2 gets e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dangling Modifier
A dangling modifier (also known as a dangling participle, illogical participle or hanging participle) is a type of ambiguous grammatical construct whereby a grammatical modifier could be misinterpreted as being associated with a word other than the one intended. A dangling modifier has no subject and is usually a participle. A writer may use a dangling modifier intending to modify a subject while word order may imply that the modifier describes an object, or vice versa. An example of a dangling modifier appears in the sentence "Turning the corner, a handsome school building appeared". The modifying clause ''Turning the corner'' describes the behavior of the narrator, but the narrator is only implicit in the sentence. The sentence could be misread, with the ''turning'' action attaching either to the ''handsome school building'' or to nothing at all. As another example, in the sentence "At the age of eight, my family finally bought a dog", the modifier ''At the age of eight'' is dan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
