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    A line lock is a device that allows the front brakes to lock independently of the rear brakes via a switch. The device is an electric solenoid that controls...
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    A lock is a device used for raising and lowering boats, ships and other watercraft between stretches of water of different levels on river and canal waterways...
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    Scroll Lock (⤓ or ⇳) is a lock key (typically with an associated status light) on most IBM-compatible computer keyboards. Depending on the operating system...
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    Lock picking is the practice of unlocking a lock by manipulating the components of the lock device without the original key. Although lock-picking can...
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    lock, also known as the Yale lock after the inventor of the modern version, is a lock mechanism that uses pins of varying lengths to prevent the lock...
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    46 m) natural rise between Lock E35 and the Niagara River. There is no Lock E1 or Lock E31 on the Erie Canal. The place of "Lock E1" on the passage from...
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    Lock bumping is a lock picking technique for opening a pin tumbler lock using a specially crafted bump key, rapping key or 999 key. A bump key must correspond...
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    helping keep the car in place as the rear wheels spin. Doughnut Drifting Line lock Wheelspin Friction Motorcycle stunt riding "Basics of Drag Racing". NHRA...
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    An anti-lock braking system (ABS) is a safety anti-skid braking system used on aircraft and on land vehicles, such as cars, motorcycles, trucks, and buses...
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    The Rape of the Lock is a mock-heroic narrative poem written by Alexander Pope. One of the most commonly cited examples of high burlesque, it was first...
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    Electromagnetic lock Electronic lock Lever tumbler lock Luggage lock Magnetic keyed lock Mortise lock Padlock Pin tumbler lock Police lock Protector lock Rim lock Time...
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    of the Lock Haven Micropolitan Statistical Area, itself part of the Williamsport–Lock Haven combined statistical area. At the 2020 census, Lock Haven's...
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  • Sean Lock, it originated as two radio series broadcast in 1998–2000, transferring to television in 2002–2004. The television series starred Sean Lock and...
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    portions of a gun: the lock, the stock, and the barrel. The term was first recorded in the letters of Sir Walter Scott in 1817, in the line "Like the High-landman's...
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  • A phase-locked loop or phase lock loop (PLL) is a control system that generates an output signal whose phase is fixed relative to the phase of an input...
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  • Core lock is a turbine engine failure that can happen to aircraft in flight. When an engine is shut down in flight, the design of the engine causes some...
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  • (gauge pressure) from the feed line, increasing the risk of a vapor lock developing between the tank and pump. A vapor lock being drawn into the fuel pump...
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    Gimbal lock is the loss of one degree of freedom in a multi-dimensional mechanism at certain alignments of the axes. In a three-dimensional three-gimbal...
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    Tidal locking between a pair of co-orbiting astronomical bodies occurs when one of the objects reaches a state where there is no longer any net change...
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    Soo Locks (redirect from Davis Lock)
    The State Lock was replaced by the original Poe Lock. The Weitzel Lock, was built between 1873 and 1881 directly south of the State Lock, and was the...
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    the county line stands roughly halfway between the lock and the opposite bank, following the course of the Thames itself. The pound lock was built by...
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    there are multiple driving axles: all driven wheels are braked at once. A line lock is a temporary parking brake that makes use of the vehicles standard hydraulic...
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    Eaton automatic differential lock (ADL), developed by the Eaton Corporation and introduced in 1973 for GM's Rounded-Line C/K Series pickups and utilities...
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    inland waterway in northern England. It runs just under 20 miles (32 km) from Lock 1E at the rear of the University of Huddersfield campus, near Aspley Basin...
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    the character "Snotty" delivers the line "Lock one... lock two... lock three... Loch Lomond..." while locking transporters onto "President Skroob"....
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    A disc tumbler or disc detainer lock is a lock composed of slotted rotating detainer discs. The lock was invented by Finnish founder of Abloy, Emil Henriksson...
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  • alternative to traditional blocking implementations. A non-blocking algorithm is lock-free if there is guaranteed system-wide progress, and wait-free if there...
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  • Go Dating James Lock: Age, TOWIE career and net worth revealed". amp.heart.co.uk. "Did James Lock's aggression on TOWIE cross the line?". Digital Spy....
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    The Eisenhower Lock is one of the seven canal locks on the St Lawrence River leg of the St Lawrence Seaway. This lock provides a 38 foot lift for ships...
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  • Lock Up the Wolves is the fifth studio album by American heavy metal band Dio, released on May 15, 1990. It displayed a complete change of musician line-up...
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