0 present participle of pinch --
1 to press something, especially someone's skin, strongly between two hard things such as a finger and a thumb, usually causing pain: --
2 to steal something: --
Right, who's pinched my chair?
Pinching and partial merging events are clearly visible.
Therefore, the magnetic pinching force dominates the electric force, and total effective perveance is negative during quasisteady-state beam propagation through the background plasma.
With enough current input into the copper it can be heated up and start pinching it in certain regions, making it unstable.
We develop two geometrical tools, pinching and tetrahedral change of faces, based on deformation of triangles, to prove it.
We define the first pinching time as the time when the plasma is pinched to the minimum radius for the first time.
Figure 4 shows that an increase in gas density of a hundred-fold can assist the capillary pinching only slightly.
One neuron responded selectively to the anticipation and delivery of noxious mechanical stimulation (pinching, pinpricks), as well as to observation of the experimenter receiving pinpricks.
In this flow regime an initially circular blob of fluid will deform without reaching equilibrium, eventually breaking by pinching off along the y -axis.