Staircase

  • 81moving staircase — noun a stairway whose steps move continuously on a circulating belt • Syn: ↑escalator, ↑moving stairway • Hypernyms: ↑stairway, ↑staircase * * * noun or moving stairway …

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  • 82A Staircase in Surrey — is a sequence of five novels by Scottish novelist and academic J. I. M. Stewart (1906 ndash;1994), and published between 1974 and 1978. The title refers to student accommodation in an imaginary Oxford college. (A staircase, in the more… …

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  • 83Up the Down Staircase — infobox Book | name = Up the Down Staircase title orig = translator = image caption = author = Bel Kaufman cover artist = country = United States language = English series = genre = Novel publisher = Barker Pub release date = 1965 media type =… …

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  • 84Artist Descending a Staircase — is Tom Stoppard s 1972 radio play that centers around a murder mystery involving an artist who dies from falling down a set of stairs [ Play Reviews at http://www.artscope.net/PAREVIEWS/ArtistDesc0501.shtml ] . PlotThe play opens with the sound… …

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  • 85The Spiral Staircase — Deux mains, la nuit Deux mains, la nuit (titre original : The Spiral Staircase) est un film américain réalisé par Robert Siodmak, sorti en 1945. Sommaire 1 Synopsis 2 Fiche technique 3 Distribution …

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  • 86Coulomb staircase — A Coulomb staircase is a staircase like current voltage characteristic resulting from Coulomb blockade effects.[1] References ^ Heinzel, Thomas (2003). Mesoscopic electronics in solid state nanostructures (illustrated ed.). Wiley VCH.… …

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  • 87Spiral Staircase — Compact staircase often built into the walls of castles. Usually designed so that attackers climbing a clockwise staircase would find it hard to fight with their right hand, whilst descending defenders would have their right (sword) arm free …

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  • 88spiral staircase — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms spiral staircase : singular spiral staircase plural spiral staircases a set of stairs shaped like a spiral …

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  • 89Geometrical staircase — Geometric Ge o*met ric, Geometrical Ge o*met ric*al, a. [L. geometricus; Gr. ?: cf. F. g[ e]om[ e]trique.] 1. Pertaining to, or according to the rules or principles of, geometry; determined by geometry; as, a geometrical solution of a problem.… …

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  • 90moving staircase — ☆ moving staircase or moving stairway n. ESCALATOR * * * …

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