Saturday, March 27, 2010

shake

In nuclear engineering and astrophysics contexts, the shake (as in "two shakes of a lamb's tail", an old colloquial expression) is used as a conveniently short period of time. 1 shake is defined as 10 nanoseconds.

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Solastalgia

  Solastalgia ( / ˌ s ɒ l ə ˈ s t æ l dʒ ə / ) is a neologism , formed by the combination of the Latin words sōlācium (solace or comfort)...