0 an unwanted twist or bend in a wire, rope, pipe, etc. that is usually straight:
There was a kink in the pipe.
Track inspectors were watching for kinks or bending of the steel rails, which can be caused by excessive heat.
African American women, tired of trying to fit a white vision of beauty, have learned to love their kinks and curls.
For years I have straightened my hair, ever since I saw the first kink in it.
Massage is a marvelous way to work out the kinks in tense muscles.
Thirty minutes later he was on the awards podium, working the kinks from his muscles and thinking about the next race.
1 something that is wrong:
3 a sharp twist or bend in something such as a wire or rope:
The behaviour of the kink can be explained by linear dispersion.
The asymptotics of the solution of the initial value problem is then given by a leaky mode of the tube kink oscillations.
The external kink modes can be stabilized perfectly by locating a perfect conducting wall sufficiently close to the plasma surface.
The stronger the reconnection rate is, the less is the kink in the reconnected field lines.
Superior noses were straight and capacious because this facilitated ventilation and did not kink the olfactory nerve-threads.
In such experiments, one kink is generally (but not always) a base bulge, while the other can be a bulge, a loop or a junction.
A small island with two peaks of mass density is deformed due to the excitation of a kink instability.
In this paper we studied kink oscillation of thin magnetic tubes in a cold plasma.
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