Hover or Hovering may refer to:
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Levitation (physics)
Levitation (from Latin ', ) is the process by which an object is held aloft in a stable position, without mechanical support via any physical contact.
Levitation is accomplished by providing an upward force that counteracts the pull of gravitat ...
, the process by which an object or person is suspended by a physical force against gravitation without solid physical contact
Animal behaviour
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Hover (behaviour)
Hovering is the ability exhibited by some winged animals to remain relatively stationary in midair. Usually this involves rapid downward thrusts of the wings to generate upward lift. Sometimes hovering is maintained by flapping or soaring into ...
, to remain stationary or float in the air, exhibited by some winged animals
* Hovering, a swimming mode in the
metachronal swimming of Antarctic krill
Computing
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Hover (domain registrar)
Tucows Inc. is an American-Canadian Public company, publicly traded Internet services and telecommunications company headquartered in Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and incorporated in Pennsylvania, United States. The company is composed of t ...
*''Mouse hover'' or
mouseover
In the field of computing and web design, a mouseover, is an event occurring when the user moves the Cursor (user interface), cursor over a specified point on a computer monitor using a computer mouse. Also called a hover effect, mouseovers are g ...
, a gesture made with the pointer in computer user interfaces
Transport
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Hover (helicopter)
Helicopter flight controls are used to achieve and maintain controlled aerodynamic helicopter flight. Changes to the aircraft flight control system transmit mechanically to the rotor, producing aerodynamic effects on the rotor blades that make t ...
, nearly stationary flight in a helicopter
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Hovercraft
A hovercraft (: hovercraft), also known as an air-cushion vehicle or ACV, is an amphibious craft capable of travelling over land, water, mud, ice, and various other surfaces.
Hovercraft use blowers to produce a large volume of air below the ...
, vehicles capable of traveling and being stationary over land, water, mud or ice
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Hovertrain
A hovertrain is a type of high-speed train that replaces conventional steel wheels with hovercraft lift pads, and the conventional railway bed with a paved road-like surface, known as the ''track'' or ''guideway''. The concept aims to eliminate ...
, a type of high-speed train
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Great Wall Hover
The Great Wall Haval H3 (), also known as the Great Wall Hover, is a compact sport utility vehicle (SUV) produced by the Chinese manufacturer Great Wall Motors from April 2005 to 2012.
It was the first Chinese car to be exported in large quantit ...
, a Sport utility vehicle produced by Great Wall Motors
*Johan E. Høver, a Norwegian aircraft designer, most noted for the
Høver M.F. 11
Other uses
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''Hover'' (EP), a 2005 EP by Hair Peace Salon
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''Hover'' (film), a 2018 American science fiction film
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Hover Chamber Choir, an Armenian choir
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Hover!
''Hover!'' is a video game that combines elements of the games bumper cars and capture the flag. It was included on CD-ROM versions of the Microsoft Windows 95 operating system. It was a showcase for the advanced multimedia capabilities availab ...
'', a computer game for Microsoft Windows
* A partial squatting position often used by women to
urinate
Urination is the release of urine from the bladder through the urethra in placental mammals, or through the cloaca in other vertebrates. It is the urinary system's form of excretion. It is also known medically as micturition, voiding, ure ...
without sitting
See also
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Hoover (disambiguation)
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Windhover (disambiguation), various meanings including the Common Kestrel
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