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drift velocity (medicine) and beetle(2) (iou)


drift velocity (medicine)


drift velocity
<radiobiology> Characteristic velocity at which the centre of a particle's orbit (guiding centre) drifts when drift motion (see above) occurs.


beetle(2) (iou)



beetle noun1.
[Old English betel, (West Saxon) bietel from Germanic, from base of BEAT verb1: see -LE1.]
A tool with heavy head and handle for ramming, crushing, driving wedges, etc. OE.
(as) deaf as a beetle arch. completely deaf or unresponsive. (as) dumb as a beetle arch. insensitive, dumb.
A machine for beetling cloth. L19.
Comb.: beetle-brain = beetle-head (a) below; beetle-head (a) a blockhead; (b) the monkey of a pile-driving engine.