; Solid state storage: Also known as flash memory, thumb drives, USB flash drives, CompactFlash, SmartMedia, Memory Stick, Secure Digital cards, etc., these devices are relatively expensive for their low capacity.

Also called a thumb to the eye.

Also known as squelch picking, a pinch harmonic or pick harmonic is a guitar technique in which the player's thumb or index finger on the picking hand slightly catches the string after it is picked, canceling the fundamental of the string, and letting one of the overtones dominate.

** Also: Gadrooning, lobed decoration, ( k ) nukked decoration, thumb molding

Also unique is the rifle's safety mechanism, operated by pressing in the large knurled disk at the rear of the bolt with the palm of the hand and rotating it in a 1 / 8 clockwise turn, which is often misunderstood by Western shooters who are used to the Mauser's thumb lever safety.

Also known as the Space Ace, Frehley has the ability to shoot lasers and to teleport by making a ' hitchhiking ' gesture with his thumb.

Also, for some easy observations, if one holds one's index finger at arm's length, the width of the index fingernail subtends approximately one degree, and the width of the thumb at the first joint subtends approximately two degrees.

Also fresher, more nutritious food-it is a good rule of thumb that fresh food is tastier and often more nutritious, as some types of vitamins in some foods do not store well.

Unlike most DA / SA semi-automatic pistols, for most revolvers, cocking the hammer with the thumb will give a more powerful hammer strike than when the hammer is cocked by pulling the trigger.

If direct flash must be used, a good rule of thumb is to separate the flash from the lens by 1 / 20 of the distance of the camera to the subject.

Researchers in conservation biology have tended to adopt the " 50 / 500 " rule of thumb initially advanced by Franklin and Soule.

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A rule of thumb for barefoot water skiing speed is ( X / 10 )+ Y = Barefooting MPH, where X equals the skiier's weight and Y equals 18.

A common rule of thumb is that the cable or wire should be treated as a transmission line if the length is greater than 1 / 10 of the wavelength.

With intervals like minor 2nds and major 2nds fingered on different strings, the charango player can play sustained melodies at rapid speed with an alternating thumb / finger pattern.

They are plucked idiophones, such as the jaw harp, amplified cactus, kouxian, dan moi, music box or mbira ( lamellophone / thumb piano ); blown idiophones, of which there are a very small number of examples, the Aeolsklavier being one ; and friction idiophones, such as the singing bowl, glass harmonica, glass harp, turntable, verrophone, daxophone, styrophone, musical saw, or nail violin ( a number of pieces of metal or wood rubbed with a bow ).

*: Ultraman crouches slightly forward and crosses his wrists together, with his right forearm vertical and left forearm horizontal in front of it, and the thumb edge of his hands facing his body, to shoot from the outer edge of his right hand a particle / light-ray that kills most opponents.

thumb Pictured above is a closer look at the carving of a Negrito / Filipino man on top of the stick.

* tom thumb, starring Russ Tamblyn and Terry-Thomas-( Britain / USA )

* Button length is the measurement in inches that is used to determine the length / measurement from the base of the glove thumb to the cuff of the glove.

The slap sound comes from the combination of two elements: striking the string with the side of the bony joint in the middle of the thumb, a harder surface than the pads of the fingers ( used in plucked fingering ); and intentionally allowing the vibrating string to come into contact with the metal frets, producing a " toney " or buzzing sound that is normally avoided in plucked / fingered bass.

He was also fond of casting himself as the victim: a hapless householder constantly under the thumb of his shrewish wife and / or mother-in-law.

Rewriting sections " pays off " in these circumstances because of a general " rule of thumb " known as the 90 / 10 law, which states that 90 % of the time is spent in 10 % of the code, and only 10 % of the time in the remaining 90 % of the code.

The general rule of thumb is a 286, 386SX, 68000 or low-end 68020 / 68030 ( e. g. Atari, Mac LC ) system ( using a 16 bit wide data bus ) would require two 30-pin SIMMs for a memory bank.

Per Guyton, in a body containing 40 litres of fluid, about 25 litres is intracellular, which amounts to 62. 5 % ( 5 / 8 ), close enough to the 2 / 3 rule of thumb.

Per Guyton's illustration, for a 40 litre body, about 15 litres is extracellular, which amounts to 37. 5 % Again, this is close to the 1 / 3 rule of thumb cited here.

As a rule of thumb, 4 or 5 tons / in < sup > 2 </ sup > can be used for most products.

For example, if one is performing something as simple as the appearing / disappearing coins using a thumb tip, the trick lies in the gimmick, but the audience is led to believe that the performer has done something very complex to hide the coins.

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I got a coin between my thumb and forefinger, leaned my elbows in a very natural and casual manner on top of the truck cab and flipped my little missile.

As a general rule of thumb, if the condition number, then you may lose up to digits of accuracy on top of what would be lost to the numerical method due to loss of precision from arithmetic methods.

Hendrix had large hands and characteristically used his thumb to fret bass notes, leaving his fingers free to play melodic lines on top.

The thumb usually controls the clicking via a two-way button on the top of the pen, or by tapping on the tablet's surface.

As a rule of thumb, senior debt usually has interest margins of 3 – 5 % ( on top of Libor or Euribor ) and needs to be paid back over a period of 5 – 7 years, junior debt has margins of 7 – 16 %, and needs to be paid back in one payment ( as bullet ) after 7 – 10 years.

The thumb stays anchored on the top of the fretboard just above the main gourd.

In the French grip, the palm of the hand should be close to perpendicular with drum head and the thumb should be on top of the stick.

The crank handle was cupped in the palm, rather than grabbed with the thumb under the top of the handle, so that if the engine did kick back, the rapid reverse motion of the crank would throw the hand away from the handle, rather than violently twisting the wrist or breaking the thumb.

The chanter's tonic is played with the top six holes and the thumb hole covered by fingers.

A right hander typically holds the potato in his left hand and holding the peeler in the fingers of the right hand and the top of the potato with the thumb of the right hand.

The chanter's tonic is played with the top six holes and the thumb hole covered by fingers.

( i ) does not protrude beyond the straight line joining the top of the index finger to the top of the thumb.

Isshin-Ryu employs a vertical punch with the fingers tucked in and the thumb on top of the fist.

The pitcher shifts the grip on a four-seamer ( often by slightly rotating the thumb inwards and the two top fingers to the outside ) to create more spin.

The pitcher places the middle finger on and parallel to one of the long seams, and the thumb just behind the seam on the opposite side of the ball such that if looking from the top down, the hand should form a " C shape " with the horseshoe pointing in towards the palm following the contour of the thumb.

" was not scripted but rather, Reed's thumb had slipped and she accidentally stabbed the top of Wood's belly button with the needle, from which she carried a scar.

In this example, there are 5 " bottom " fingers ( the left index, middle, ring, and little fingers, plus the right little finger ), 1 left " top " finger ( the left thumb ), and 4 right " top " fingers ( the right thumb, index finger, middle finger, and ring finger ).