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- verb Present participle of
cavitate .
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Examples
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But consider, meanwhile, Alex Metcalf's Tree Listening Installation, in which you listen in to the quiet popping sound that is produced by the water passing through the cells of the Xylem tubes and cavitating as it mixes with air on its way upwards.
Sonic Garden 2009
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But consider, meanwhile, Alex Metcalf's Tree Listening Installation, in which you listen in to the quiet popping sound that is produced by the water passing through the cells of the Xylem tubes and cavitating as it mixes with air on its way upwards.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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Have you any idea of the difficulty of dropping a missile out of the cavitating turbulence behind an open cargo ramp and stabilizing it in in a 300kph slipstream?
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Rob, You are 'dead' right on Iran 'super cavitating' missile
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Rob, You are 'dead' right on Iran 'super cavitating' missile
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A problem with the Skyhawk's turbine cavitating while underway submerged was overcome.
Archive 2006-01-01 Zoe Brain 2006
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Rob, You are 'dead' right on Iran 'super cavitating' missile by Amanda Lang on Tuesday, Jul 25, 2006 at 11: 55: 15 PM
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A problem with the Skyhawk's turbine cavitating while underway submerged was overcome.
Australian "Black" Defence Projects of the 70s Zoe Brain 2006
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The suddenly increased noise of her cavitating screws was discernible to several sonobuoys and Pharris's tactical sonar.
Red Storm Rising Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1986
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It took every bit of her psychokinetic power to turn them back over, so tenacious was the grip of the cavitating surge in the undercut rock below the cascade.
The Golden Torc May, Julian, 1931- 1981
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