fan spreading

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• fan tracery — /fæn ˈtreɪsəri/ (say fan traysuhree) noun tracery which rises from a capital or a corbel and diverges like the folds of a fan, spreading over the surface of a vault …  

• Spreading activation — is a method for searching associative networks, neural networks, or semantic networks. The search process is initiated by labeling a set of source nodes (e.g. concepts in a semantic network) with weights or activation and then iteratively… …   Wikipedia

• fan sign — spreading apart of the toes following the stroking of the sole of the foot; it forms part of the Babinski reflex …   Medical dictionary

• fan — fan1 W2S2 [fæn] n [Sense: 1; Date: 1800 1900; Origin: fanatic] [Sense: 2; Date: 700 800; : Latin; Origin: vannus] 1.) someone who likes a particular sport or performing art very much, or who admires a famous person ▪ Hundreds of football fans… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• fan — 1 noun (C) 1 someone who likes a particular sport or performing art very much, or who admires a famous person: a football fan (+ of): She s always been a big fan of Michael Jackson. | fan club (=an organization for people who support a team,… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• fan vault — noun : a vault produced by fan vaulting * * * a vault composed of a number of concave conoidal surfaces, usually four, springing from the corners of the vaulting compartment and touching or intersecting at the top, often decorated with ribs. See… …   Useful english dictionary

• fan shaped — Synonyms and related words: centrifugal, delta shaped, deltalike, deltoid, divaricate, divaricating, divergent, diverging, fan shape, fanlike, fanned, fanning, flabelliform, flared, flaring, open, outspread, outstretched, palmate, palmated,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• Seafloor spreading — Age of oceanic crust; youngest (red) is along spreading centers. Seafloor spreading is a process that occurs at mid ocean ridges, where new oceanic crust is formed through volcanic activity and then gradually moves away from the ridge. Seafloor… …   Wikipedia

• Abyssal fan — Abyssal Fans, also known as deep sea fans, underwater deltas, and submarine fans, are underwater structures that look like deltas formed at the end of many large rivers, such as the Nile or Mississippi Rivers. Abyssal fans are also thought of as… …   Wikipedia

• Korean Fan/Mu Puche — Korean Fighting Fan is a martial arts weapon spawned during the early Joseon Dynasty as a weapon of opportunity. Swords and similar edged weapons were banned during this time which created a need for weapons that could be held in plain sight… …   Wikipedia

• fantail — fan tailed, adj. /fan tayl /, n. 1. a tail, end, or part shaped like a fan. 2. one of a breed of domestic pigeons, having a fan shaped tail. 3. any of various small birds having fanlike tails, as the Old World flycatchers of the genus Rhipidura… …   Universalium