spinning disc

collocation in English

meaningsofspinanddisc

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spin
noun
uk
/spɪn/us
/spɪn/
the movement of something turning round ...
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disc
noun[C]
uk
/dɪsk/us
/dɪsk/
mainly UK
a circular ...
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(Definition ofspinanddiscfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In developing countries, battery-operatedspinningdiscsprayers are a cheap alternative for resourcepoor farmers.
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This method of applying pesticides uses equipment which generates spray droplets by means, most commonly, of aspinningdiscrather than by conventional hydraulic pressure spray nozzles.
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The external structure would still be that of aspinningdisc.
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Once thespinningdiscis upright, riders are inverting in the suspended cars, completing a manuveure similar to a vertical loop element of a rollercoaster.
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Thespinningdiscbrake will be placed down at the piston with the larger cross-section.
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The first failed one was intended to test seed growth in microgravity in an unconventional wayby germinating seeds on aspinningdisc.
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A typical counter of presorted coins uses a bowl with flatspinningdiscat the bottom to distribute coins around the bowl perimeter.
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The victim was locked into position with arm- and legchains on thespinningdisc.
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According to many witnesses, after a period of rain, the dark clouds broke and the sun appeared as an opaque,spinningdiscin the sky.
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Operating errors would occur from adjusting the wheel, as the wheel tended to slide as it was dragged across the face of thespinningdiscas it was adjusted.
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Cinematography uses a rotary disc shutter in movie cameras, a continuouslyspinningdiscwhich conceals the image with a reflex mirror during the intermittent motion between frame exposure.
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Camera systems used similar spinning discs and required intensely bright illumination of the subject for the light detector to work.
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