0 an unwanted twist or bend in a wire, rope, pipe, etc. that is usually straight: --
Thirty minutes later he was on the awards podium, working the kinks from his muscles and thinking about the next race.
Massage is a marvelous way to work out the kinks in tense muscles.
For years I have straightened my hair, ever since I saw the first kink in it.
African American women, tired of trying to fit a white vision of beauty, have learned to love their kinks and curls.
Track inspectors were watching for kinks or bending of the steel rails, which can be caused by excessive heat.
There was a kink in the pipe.
1 something that is wrong: --
3 a sharp twist or bend in something such as a wire or rope: --
The middle figure shows second viscosity solution where the first solution (left) was applied as boundary condition at the kink.
However, a sheetwise magnetic field can often provide a strong stabilizing effect, for example for kink instabilities.
Cross-sectional shaping is known to have strong effects on internal kink stability, especially at low shear.
The cooperative effects of the wave motion, steeping and instability, give rise to the possibility of the formation of stationary or moving kink solitons.
We study the normal and leaky kink oscillations of a thin magnetic tube embedded in a surrounding magnetized plasma.
Other mechanisms causing decay must be sought if we are to explain the observed damping of kink loop oscillations.
In this paper we study both leaky and non-leaky kink modes of a straight magnetic tube by solving the initial value problem.
In this paper we studied kink oscillation of thin magnetic tubes in a cold plasma.