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air movement

Air transport of units, personnel, supplies, and equipmentincluding airdrops and air landings. See also airdrop; air landed.
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.
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He also cites its merits in daylighting and passive air movement and cooling.
Others believe the hole is formed bydynamic air movement and mixing.
ELTA FANS, the global manufacturer of fans and air movement products, has been appointed to design and supply fans for two major tunnel developments.
The problems of wind loading, sway, wind tunnel testing, imperceptibly give way to those of natural ventilation and wind air movement inside the buildings.
Both living rooms can be opened by shutters to the north through their great enveloping walls, aiding the natural air movement from below.
Species that are covered with fine hairs/scales or trichomes, giving them a soft hairy appearance, and species with fine leaves need good air movement and quick drying.
This inevitably led to talk about the small cost of increasing air movement compared to the savings from increasing workforce productivity by a few percentage points.
HERAEUS NOBLELIGHT says its new solid reflector infrared module (SRM) can significantly speed up heating or improve quality in the processing of thin and sensitive materials such as textiles or tissues and its special construction, incorporating external, top-mounted radial fans, air inlets and outlets, eliminates any air movement over the substrate to be heated, avoiding heat losses due to convection and any possibility of thermal shock.