bends

/ bɛndz /

plural noun

1. (functioning as singular or plural) a nontechnical name for decompression sickness

Example Sentences

Following a series of bends in the road she noticed debris on the roadway and then saw the Focus in bushes.

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By comparing the patterns in forward- and back-scattered light, they could estimate each particle's size and its refractive index, which describes how strongly light bends or scatters when it passes through a material.

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"It is a very dangerous stretch of road, with bad bends and no public lighting," he told BBC News NI.

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The last mile of disinflation may be the hardest, not because the Fed is weary, but because the road itself now bends toward fiscal dominance.

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And general relativity presents a four-dimensional continuum that bends and curves -- we tend to imagine that continuum of the events as really existing.

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