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The bat wing is a membrane stretched across four extremely elongated fingers, while the airfoil of the bird wing is made of feathers, which are strongly attached to the forearm ( the ulna ) and the highly fused bones of the wrist and hand ( the carpometacarpus ), with only tiny remnants of two fingers remaining, each anchoring a single feather.
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He says, " What can be more curious than that the hand of a man, formed for grasping, that of a mole for digging, the leg of the horse, the paddle of the porpoise, and the wing of the bat, should all be constructed on the same pattern, and should include the same bones, in the same relative positions?
Viollet le Duc always signed his work with a bat, the wing structure of which most resembles the Gothic vault ( see Château de Roquetaillade ).
Bat and pterosaur wings are an example of analogous structures, while the bat wing is homologous to human and other mammal forearms, sharing an ancestral state despite serving different functions.
The wing of the bat is longer than the head and body combined and 65 % of its wingspan is made of the third digit.
The Gundams have more stylized ( and somewhat ostentatious ) appearances, reflected in the " Angel Wings " of the Wing Gundam ZERO, the " bat wing "- styled cloak and much more demonic appearance of the Gundam Deathscythe Hell, and the more dragon-like appearance of the Altron Gundam.
However, many Noctuidae species have tiny organs in their ears which responds to bat echolocation calls, sending their wing muscles into spasm and causing the moths to dart erratically.
If choosing a " self-tie " bow tie, there are usually two shapes available: the " bat wing ," which is parallel-sided like a cricket bat, and the " thistle ", sometimes known as the " butterfly.
Fixed length with " thistle " ends ( left ) and adjustable with " bat wing " ends ( right ).
Warduke is a muscular human, equipped with a skull-motif shield, a half-suit of blue chainmail, and most notably, a helmet complete with " bat wing "- like ridges.
** M16A1 MGMC-Standard M3 Personnel Carriers converted to Multiple Gun Motor Carriages by removing rear seats and installing a Maxson M45 mount ( more specifically the M45F, which featured folding " bat wing " gun shields on both sides of the mount over the machine guns ).
Popobawa is a Swahili name which translates literally as " bat-wing " ( from Swahili popo, " bat ", and bawa, " wing ").
* Bat wing, the wing of a bat
An adult brown long-eared bat has a body length of 4. 5-4. 8 cm, a tail of 4. 1-4. 6 cm, and a wing length of 4-4. 2 cm.
bat and is
* SV — Save: number of games where the pitcher enters a game led by the pitcher's team, finishes the game without surrendering the lead, is not the winning pitcher, and either ( a ) the lead was three runs or fewer when the pitcher entered the game ; ( b ) the potential tying run was on base, at bat, or on deck ; or ( c ) the pitcher pitched three or more innings
* SVO — Save opportunity: When a pitcher 1 ) enters the game with a lead of three or fewer runs and pitches at least one inning, 2 ) enters the game with the potential tying run on base, at bat, or on deck, or 3 ) pitches three or more innings with a lead and is credited with a save by the official scorer
In baseball, an at bat ( AB ) or time at bat is used to calculate certain statistics, including batting average, on base percentage, and slugging percentage.
* The inning ends while he is still at bat ( due to the third out being made by a runner caught stealing, for example ).
* He is replaced by another hitter before his at bat is completed ( unless he is replaced with two strikes and his replacement strikes out ).
" Number of times batted, except that no time at bat shall be charged when a player: ( 1 ) hits a sacrifice bunt or sacrifice fly ; ( 2 ) is awarded first base on four called balls ; ( 3 ) is hit by a pitched ball ; or ( 4 ) is awarded first base because of interference or obstruction ..."
An at bat is counted when:
" At bat ", " up ", " up at bat ", and " at the plate " are all phrases describing a batter who is facing the pitcher.
Note that just because a player is described as being " at bat " in this sense, he will not necessarily be given an at bat in his statistics ; the phrase actually signifies a plate appearance ( assuming it is eventually completed ).
To refer explicitly to the technical meaning of " at bat " described above, the term " official at bat " is sometimes used.
In the first two cases above, " on an error " includes situations where the batter makes a clean hit ( or walks, is hit by pitch, reaches base on a fielder's choice in which no out is made, or reaches base on a wild pitch on a called or swinging third strike ), but should have been out earlier in his at bat on a foul fly ball which was dropped by a fielder for an error.
In baseball, hit by pitch ( HBP ), or hit batsman ( HB ), is a batter or his equipment ( other than his bat ) being hit in some part of his body by a pitch from the pitcher.
Per baseball official rule 6. 08 ( b ), a batter becomes a baserunner and is awarded first base when he or his equipment ( except for his bat ):
As addressed within Rule 10. 08 ( d ) of the Official Baseball Rules, a sacrifice fly is not counted as a turn at bat for the batter, though the batter is credited with a run batted in.
bat and membrane
The Ghost Bat ( Macroderma gigas ), also known as the False Vampire Bat is a bat endemic to Australia, named for the extremely thin membrane of its wings that makes it appear ghostly at night.
bat and across
E. M., who was seven years older than W. G., had always played with a full size bat and so developed a tendency, that he never lost, to hit across the line, the bat being too big for him to " play straight ".
The batsman's crease may be marked by a stick or spare bat, but is generally made by dragging the bat across the line of the pitch at a guessed metre out from the stumps and however distance is large enough to be clearly seen.
The bulldog bat may also search by dragging its feet across the water surface, a behavior known as raking.
The bat ' leth appeared in 29 television episodes across the Star Trek franchise and was also used in the 1994 film Star Trek: Generations.
* Baseball Stars 2 ( 1992 ) featured 18 teams across 2 leagues ( exciting league & fighting league ) and put more emphasis on graphics and actual gameplay ( for example, being able to change pitchers or batters and powering up batters which increased the size of your bat ).
However, he is sometimes technically questioned for shuffling across his stumps and being trapped leg before wicket, and thrusting his bat away from his body — especially early in his innings.
Being " out of his ground " is defined as not having any part of the batsman's body or his bat touching the ground behind the crease-i. e., if his bat is slightly elevated from the floor despite being behind the crease, or if his foot is on the crease line itself but not completely across it and touching the ground behind it, then he would be considered out ( if stumped ).
A bat bridge was built over the Groeslon bypass in 2010 to guide lesser horseshoe bats across the road.
The western mastiff bat, Eumops perotis, a large species from the southwestern United States and Mexico with wings over across, is perhaps one of the best known with this name.
This makes it more difficult to hit the ball to the leg side because it involves swinging the bat across the line of the ball, which can lead to mishits and catches.
In 1997, when he was as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year, the cricket almanack Wisden described him that he " moved his front foot and head well across, then his wrists hovered, hawk-like, over the advancing ball, extending further and further as if they were elastic if the ball was slanted ever more away from him, before the bat flowed into a square-drive to the boundary ".
His first wicket was Chauhan who was declared out caught behind with the ball having spun across the face of the bat without apparently touching it.
This was attributed to the dominance of his bottom hand, which saw his bat swinging across the line of flight of the ball.
The Common Pipistrelle Pipistrellus pipistrellus is a small pipistrelle bat whose very large range extends across most of Europe, North Africa, southwestern Asia, and possibly into Korea.
New animal hazards include bats, which fly across some screens from left to right ; condors, which start by flying right to left, then reverse and fly left to right the remainder of the visit to that screen ; Electric eels that swim in the rivers ; and frogs that jump over some pits that have ladders, often above where a bat is present.
A bat bridge was constructed in 2010 to guide lesser horseshoe bats across the road.
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