harnessing

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After a while, however, the harnessing was accomplished somehow and in some way, although whether the breeching was where the bridle should have been or vice versa was more than the harnesser would have dared swear.

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  1. noun The gear or tackle, other than a yoke, with which a draft animal pulls a vehicle or implement.
  2. noun Something resembling such gear or tackle, as the arrangement of straps used to hold a parachute to the body.
  3. noun A device that raises and lowers the warp threads on a loom.
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  • More information: "DNA Sudoku-harnessing high-throughput sequencing for multiplexed specimen analysis" appears in the July 1st print issue of Genome Research. —  PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
  • This harnessing is quite vague, including buzz monitoring (what's topical on Twitter now), corporate reputation management, customer insights and feedback, virtual focus groups, social marketing, ecommerce offers, crisis management and issue advocacy. —  The Register
  • This approach has been described as Crowdsourcing, though I think I prefer the more elegant term harnessing collective intelligence, with technologies of cooperation —  SMLXL - Engagement Marketing and Communication principles from Alan Moore
  • The big revolution in the 1990s and the early part of this decade was networking -- harnessing that computing horsepower to create, in effect, a vast distributed computing system. —  Latest from Computerworld
  • The logic for harnessing (them) together lies in their common upstart character. —  Progressive Bloggers
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