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?
This is supported by the isolated, periclinal nature, the absence of cross-stratification or visible pinching and swelling of laminae across the waves.
Taking into account the absence of counteracting pressure in the corona plasma, it is possible to expect it pinching onto the cold core plasma.
The proposed feedback control law is a linear combination of simple control signals each achieving a specified subtask of the dexterous object pinching motion.
Normally, the laser spike occurs around the first pinching time and near stagnation.
None of these authors, though, was able to give a theoretical criterion to distinguish solutions that do or do not exhibit marginal pinching.
We therefore find that no marginal pinching occurs in this case: the film always approaches a monotonic profile at large times.
In this flow regime an initially circular blob of fluid will deform without reaching equilibrium, eventually breaking by pinching off along the y -axis.
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.
