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Coinage Of The Word In The Realm (Score:1)

by chaoticset (2105) on 2005.05.10 12:53 (#40302) Homepage Journal

Finally, a good term to describe the rate at which a liquid will cover a given area, assuming that the area is level and that it takes no time to pour it into that area!
I mean, we all know how often that happens...

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- Re:Coinage Of The Word In The Realm (Score:2)
  
  by drhyde (1683)
  
  It happens every time you have a perfectly spherical frictionless physicist of uniform density performing the experiment.
- Re:Coinage Of The Word In The Realm (Score:2)
  
  by jmm (276)
  
  When the liquid is spilled^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hpoured onto a laptop, it is a fractal unit, midway between area speed and volume speed, that must be measured (mostly area is covered, but the volume aspect comes in as the liquid seeps down under the keys into a new area at a different vertical level).
  Displaimer: no personal experience was involved in the creation of this message, oh no, not me, not at all, I wasn't even in the room when it happened, and nothing happened anyhow.

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