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Fungo Bat: Bat used to hit fungo. Usually longer and thinner than a regular back.

Fungo: A ball hit to a fielder during practice. It's usually hit by a coach using a ‘fungo bat,’ which is longer and thinner than a normal bat.

Katabatic Wind: A wind that is created by air flowing downhill. When this air is warm, it may be called a foehn wind, and regionally it may be known as a Chinook or Santa Ana. When this air is cold or cool, . . . View Full Definition

Incubation Period: The incubation period is the amount of time between infection with a virus or bacteria to the start of symptoms.

Hyperbaton : Inversion of word-order, e.g., noun-adjective.

Lithium-Ion Battery (Li-Ion): Lighter weight battery than earlier types, having relatively longer cycle life and generally do not suffer from memory effect.

Luc-bat : A vietnamese poetic form of syllablic couplets, alternating six and eight syllables, where the first eight-syllable line rhymes with the next six-syllable line, and so on.

Nickel Cadmium Battery (NiCd): A rechargeable battery that typically lasts for 700 charge and discharge cycles. If not completely discharged before recharging, the NiCd battery can suffer from memory effect that may reduc . . . View Full Definition

Monobath: Is a single solution which combines developer and fixer for processing b&w negatives. It is a quick simple system but does not allow for development control.

Moist Adiabat: The line on a Skew T-Log P chart that depicts the change in temperature of saturated air as it rises and undergoes cooling due to adiabatic expansion. As saturated air rises, the temperature . . . View Full Definition