back-action

Schwab and his colleagues were able to get closer than ever to that theoretical limit with their measurements, demonstrating as well a phenomenon called back-action, by which the act of observing something actually gives it a nudge of momentum.

Archive 2006-10-01 Zoe Brain 2006

Schwab and his colleagues were able to get closer than ever to that theoretical limit with their measurements, demonstrating as well a phenomenon called back-action, by which the act of observing something actually gives it a nudge of momentum.

Now This is Cool! Zoe Brain 2006

Kentucky style of rifle, except for back-action lock and small oval patch-box.

A Catalogue of Early Pennsylvania and Other Firearms and Edged Weapons at "Restless Oaks" Henry W. Shoemaker

Nicely checkered walnut grips, steel mountings, back-action locks, rings in butts, which unscrew, the butts containing spare nipples and cleaning-head for ramrod.

A Catalogue of Early Pennsylvania and Other Firearms and Edged Weapons at "Restless Oaks" Henry W. Shoemaker

'That takes the shine all off of Miss Pendergasses' double back-action, self-adjusting, anti-corrosive, herring-bone, powerloom lamp, don't it, my dear cousin? 'asked Gregory, who had been regaled several times with an account of a wonderful lamp that burnt one hour at a cost of only ten cents, or ten hours at a cost of one cent -- Gregory never could remember which.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

He was holding his pistol on a double back-action, rapid-fire gun-fighter, and only the fact that Piegan was half drunk and the other performing an impersonal duty had so far prevented the opening of a large-sized package of trouble.

Raw Gold A Novel Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

Anita ain't going to turn handsprings just for the back-action honor of marrying a Rodaine.

The Cross-Cut Courtney Ryley Cooper 1913

But here the current set in with a back-action, so that it made a little eddy right against the bank -- and a trout in that particular spot would have his nose _downstream_.

Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies 1911

Killin 'him would be a double back-action massacre.

Thankful's Inheritance Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

It had too hard a back-action kick, he explained, and they might forget themselves if they took too much.

The Trail of the White Mule B. M. Bower 1905