Meaning of edge control | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A hair product formulated to hold down baby or fine hair.
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2. The controlled use and placement of the edge of a skate, ski, or snowboard.
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3. A skill in edging; the ability to maintain one gunwale higher than the other at a controlled angle.
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4. The management and manipulation of the edges of an aircraft's wings or control surfaces to enhance performance and stability.
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5. Control over the exact placement of edges on a line or shape one is mapping, cutting, or etching.
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6. The management of an unpredictable situation in order to prevent it from becoming physically dangerous.
   uncountable

Examples

“As a gauge of its importance, consider that when an instructor or racer speaks of someone having amazing edge control, he means that that skier is a master of the slopes.”

“Many people say that skaters who had to do figures learned to freeskate better because figures teach you edge control.”

“Skateboards roll. They do not slide. The demands of edge control aren't involved in the physics of this sport.”

“These help keep the knees locked into the side of the kayak and help with edge control.”

“Analyze your edge control to figure out exactly what you need to do with your knee, foot, leg, hip, and body.”

“This provides additional edge control over your kayak and helps keep your butt from falling out of the seat when you are upside-down.”

“Trailing edge control surface configurations may be composed of a full span, inboard partial-span, outboard tip partial-span, or up to six individual control surfaces, including side-by-side common edge control surfaces, and nested controls.”

“We do not feel that it is necessary to go below 3 inch rotors since an effective edge control strategy will control the narrow edge shape problem without an accurate measurement of the problem.”

“Edge control not only helps to meet the need for strip shape quality, but also improve the yield of strip.”

“Center and edge control of linewidth and isolated and nested lines have been the primary control metrics of interest for plasma etching .”

“From the perspective of cyber-physical space mapping, the technologies of software definition and virtualization modeling are extended to edge hardware resources (including: terminal device resources, edge control device resources, edge computing resources, edge storage resources) and edge application services.”

“It is conditioned by edge control, minimizing threats to personal danger, resolving the encounter, avoiding excessive paperwork, and getting on with something more interesting.”

“In this section I describe edge control as a phenomenon associated with the contingent (or unpredictable) nature of police-citizen interactions.”

“A great deal of police work is about edge control.”

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