In all those systems, the medium ( card or tape ) conceptually carried an array of hole positions ; each position could be either punched through or not, thus carrying one bit of information.

The deepest hole drilled to date is the SG-3 borehole which is deep, part of the Soviet Kola Superdeep Borehole project ; thus, visual knowledge of the Earth's structure extends that far.

One version mimics the layout of a piano or mallet instrument, with the natural notes of a C diatonic scale in the lower reed-plate and the sharps / flats in the upper reed-plate in groups of two and three holes with gaps in between like the black keys of a piano ( thus there is no E #/ Fb hole nor a B #/ Cb hole on the upper reed-plate ).

When examined, female hamsters have their anal and genital openings close together, whereas males have these two holes farther apart ( the penis is usually withdrawn into the coat and thus appears as a hole or pink pimple ).

Also, several games include the notion of capturing holes, and thus all seeds sown on a captured hole belong at the end of the game to the player who captured it.

This means that the interior black hole region can contain a mix of particles that fell in from either universe ( and thus an observer who fell in from one universe might be able to see light that fell in from the other one ), and likewise particles from the interior white hole region can escape into either universe.

He then calculated that the angle of this hole was < sup > th </ sup > the diameter of the Sun, and thus it was about 30, 000 times as far away.

In materials with a small dielectric constant, the Coulomb interaction between an electron and a hole may be strong and the excitons thus tend to be small, of the same order as the size of the unit cell.

The oldest for which there is evidence is trepanation, in which a hole is drilled or scraped into the skull, thus exposing the dura mater in order to treat health problems related to intra cranial pressure and other diseases.

Hiding in the shadow of a tree, he avoided being seen under the moonlight, and later concealed himself in a hole he had prepared beforehand, thus escaping capture.

Holding " hole " cards allows players to view them more quickly and thus speeds up gameplay, but spectators watching over a player's shoulder can communicate the strength of that hand to other players, even unintentionally.

One option is to perform a vesicostomy, which allows the bladder to drain through a small hole in the abdomen, thus helping to prevent urinary tract infections.

The chanter is set on the right knee thus closing off the bottom hole.

In certain species, such as Helix pomatia, this barrier is reinforced with calcium carbonate, and thus it superficially resembles an operculum, except that it has a tiny hole to allow some oxygen exchange.

A person could use special knives to cut stencils by hand, but handwriting was impractical, because any closed loop letterform would cut a hole and thus print as a black blob.

To use one hand is placed on the hole board while the other turns the shaft to wind the cord around its length thus raising the hole board to near the top where the cord becomes taut.

The current settlement of Lebanon was on the Preston Ridge and was thus too high in elevation, so the watering hole was placed about four miles ( 6 km ) to the west on lower ground.

This gives them the ability to swap bodies and thus by using a hole in the contract sealing Dosadi they can escape via jump gate.

Based on previous work done by William S. Webb, William R. Perkins claims that atlatl weights, commonly called " bannerstones ," and characterized by a centered hole in a symmetrically shaped carved or ground stone, shaped wide and flat with a drilled hole and thus a little like a large wingnut, are a rather ingenious improvement to the design that created a silencing effect when swung.

Many species search for prey such as grubs by " open-bill probing ", that is, forcefully opening the bill after inserting it into a crevice, thus expanding the hole and exposing the prey ; this behavior is referred to by the German verb zirkeln ( pronounced ).

Projectiles may then be fired through the hole thus created.

A plot error, or a plot hole as it's commonly known, reflects a failure in the consistency of the created fictional world.

The immobility causes the labial tissue to bond, forming a wall of flesh and skin across the entire vulva, apart from a hole the size of a matchstick for the passage of urine and menstrual blood, which is created by inserting a twig or rock salt into the wound .< ref > Gollaher, David.

This hole, which is classified by geologists as either a " piping feature " or " piping pseudokarst ", was deep, and apparently was created by fluid from a sewer eroding uncemented volcanic ash and other pyroclastic deposits underlying Guatemala City.

Some years later the National Geographic Society created a similar robot which drilled a small hole in the southern door, only to find another larger door behind it.

A hole can be created for a p-type dopant, and an electron for an n-type dopant.

The strategy for introducing the new GST tax was to fill a ' black hole ' in the budget that was created by the introduction of a new 0 / 10 tax that replaced the old tax system that previously exempted foreign investors from corporation tax and levied a 20 % rate on Jersey residents.

Most such patterns are solvable, with the exceptions of placing each pair of holes near two corners of the board in such a way that both corners could only be fitted by a P-pentomino, or forcing a T-pentomino or U-pentomino in a corner such that another hole is created.

This created a plot hole and speculation among fans as to whether Deckard was the 6th replicant with new memories.

On July 7, 2003, a foam impact test created a hole 41 cm by 42. 5 cm ( 16. 1 inches by 16. 7 inches ) in the protective RCC panel.

With repeated blows, the cracks would grow steadily until a hole was created.

The TDRSS allowed the Shuttle to communicate by relay with a Tracking and Data Relay Satellite during re-entry, through a " hole " in the ionized air envelope at the tail end of the craft, created by the Shuttle's shape.

In the alternate reality presented by the 2009 film Star Trek, the planet Vulcan is destroyed in the year 2258 by an artificial black hole created by the Narada, a Romulan mining vessel from the future, killing most of its six billion inhabitants.

If one tone hole is closed before the next one is opened, a staccato effect can be created because the sound stops completely when no air can escape at all.

Each stone created a hole in the cliff, and the water of the lake became lower.

Washington, creating a pond, while Gluskab's arrow created a hole in the sky that was then called msatawa ( the Evening Star ).

Long Lake itself is the remnants of the glaciers, as it was a chunk of ice that was left behind, melted, and created the lake in the hole it occupied.

The saloon houses a bullet hole on the side of the building and a coroner's letter describing how it was created.

Different reports said it came either through the specially created hole in the wall, that it was pumped through the theater's ventilation system, or that it emerged from beneath the stage.

The edge of the countertop material is exposed at the hole created for the sink ( and so must be a carefully finished edge rather than a rough cut ).

By inserting a twig or similar before the wound heals, a small hole is created for the passage of urine and menstrual blood.

It would certainly have created a large hole in the income statement under the " warranty costs " heading, but it may have been too late for customer confidence.

It may also refer to any " burr " hole created through other body surfaces, including nail beds.

Years later he emerges from the hole which his fall created, accompanied by a Chinese wife and two small Chinese-American children.

The well is created by drilling a hole 5 to 50 inches ( 127. 0 mm to 914. 4 mm ) in diameter into the earth with a drilling rig that rotates a drill string with a bit attached.