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    thrust by moving fins back and forth in water. Often the tail fin is used, but some aquatic animals generate thrust from pectoral fins. Fins can also generate...
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    from the tail or caudal fin, fish fins have no direct connection with the back bone and are supported only by muscles. Fish fins are distinctive anatomical...
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    Finswimming (redirect from Fin Swimming)
    by its acronym, BF or as 'stereo-fins') is swimming on the surface of the water with mask, snorkel and a pair of fins using a crawl style. BF races are...
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    Swimfin (redirect from Swim fins)
    Swimfins, swim fins, diving fins, or flippers are finlike accessories worn on the feet, legs or hands and made from rubber, plastic, carbon fiber or combinations...
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  • (International Association for Development of Apnea): dynamic with fins (DYN) and dynamic without fins (DNF). Both disciplines require breath held dives where the...
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    base area and all of the fins. This is the efficiency for an array of fins. Aluminium heat sink with low efficiency cooling fins Aluminium heat sink with...
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    Grid fins (or lattice fins) are a type of flight control surface used on rockets and bombs, sometimes in place of more conventional control surfaces,...
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    Actinopterygii (redirect from Ray-fin)
    built fins made of webbings of skin supported by radially extended thin bony spines called lepidotrichia, as opposed to the bulkier, fleshy lobed fins of...
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    Sarcopterygii (redirect from Lobe-fins)
    Early lobe-finned fishes are bony fish with fleshy, lobed, paired fins, which are joined to the body by a single bone. The fins of lobe-finned fishes differ...
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    is generally found more often on the dorsal fin, pectoral fins, and flukes. Other barnacles found on fin whales include the acorn barnacle Coronula reginae...
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  • "Gatlin's Fins & Feathers". Texas Monthly. Archived from the original on 2023-03-09. Retrieved 2023-10-06. Cook, Alison (2023-08-21). "Review: Gatlin's Fins &...
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  • Psychiatry. Fins is also Director of Medical Ethics and an attending physician at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center. Fins is also...
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    Constant weight without fins (CNF) is an AIDA International (International Association for Development of Apnea) freediving discipline in which the freediver...
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    various quantities of fins. These activities were believed to violate the Shark Finning Prohibition Act of 2000 (SFPA). The fins were thus seized and the...
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    world records with 171 m (561 ft) in dynamics without fins, 204 m (669 ft) in dynamics with fins (DYNBP) and 250 m (820 ft) in dynamics with monofin (DYN)...
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  • a year before he opens up to Munch about his former partner getting shot. During an investigation of prisoner sexual abuse, both Fin and Benson go undercover...
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    pair of feathery appendages that are actually highly modified pelvic fins. These fins are thought to improve gas exchange around the fish's eggs in its nest...
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    Ocean sunfish (section Fins)
    oval shape when seen head-on. The pectoral fins are small and fan-shaped, while the dorsal fin and the anal fin are lengthened, often making the fish as...
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    without fins. CWT = Constant weight with fins. Diving as deep as possible with the use of fins or a monofin. CNF = Constant weight without fins. Diving...
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    alfredi, reaches 5.5 m (18 ft). Both have triangular pectoral fins, horn-shaped cephalic fins and large, forward-facing mouths. They are classified among...
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    with fins. Diving as far as possible with the use of fins or a monofin. DNF = Dynamic Apnea without fins. Diving as far as possible without fins. CWT...
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    Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht), better known by its abbreviation BaFin, is Germany's integrated financial regulatory authority. Since 2014, it has...
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  • "Fin Argus Opens Up About Playing Mingus on Queer As Folk". Byrdie. Retrieved 2022-11-04. Staff, Wonderland (2021-05-27). "Wearing Limitato, Actor Fin...
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    Scombridae (category Ray-finned fish families)
    Gasterochismatinae. Scombrids have two dorsal fins and a series of finlets behind the rear dorsal fin and anal fin. The caudal fin is strongly divided and rigid, with...
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  • and erosion that enlarges the fractures, producing fins. The third step is erosion attacking fins from below, causing windows and arches. The fourth step...
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  • bi-fins, denoted by the acronym CWTB in competition notation, is a competitive freediving discipline wherein the freediver wears a pair of bi-fins (or...
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    trim. Neutral or slightly negative fins are considered most generally suitable. Ankle weights tend to hold the fins down when there is no excess air in...
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    1900D. The Grumman X-29 research aircraft had rear fuselage lateral fins or "Tail fins", sometimes called strakes, continuous with the trailing edge of the...
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    the tail fin. More specialized fish include movement by pectoral fins with a mainly stiff body, opposed sculling with dorsal and anal fins, as in the...
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    fins; two dorsal fins, two pectoral fins, two pelvic fins, a caudal fin and an anal fin. The midline of the upper body contains the two dorsal fins;...
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