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Heat Flow: The movement of heat energy from the core of the Earth towards the surface.

International Wheat Agreement (IWA): Replaced in 1995 by the International Grains Agreement.

Laminar Flow: The movement of a fluid where movement of the entire fluid is regular and with parallel streamlines.

Irrigation Return Flow: Part of artificially applied water that is not consumed by plants or evaporation, and that eventually 'returns' to an aquifer or surface water body, such as a lake or stream. Commonly used w . . . View Full Definition

Inertial Flow: A solution of the relative hydrodynamic equations of motion in which only the horizontal component of the Coriolis and centrifugal forces are balanced. This anticyclonic flow results from a . . . View Full Definition

Honeysuckle Flowers (Lonicera periclymenum): Laxative, expectorant.

Incomplete Flower: Condition in which one or more typical flower parts are absent. Example: grass flowers such as corn tassels which are male.

Incremental Cash Flows: A legal process through which a company receives a charter and the state in which it is based allows it to operate as a corporation.

Laminar-Flow Airfoil: A low-drag airfoil designed to maintain laminar (smooth, continuous) flow over a high percentage of the CHORD about itself. Often relatively thin, especially along the leading edge, with mos . . . View Full Definition

Linden Flowers (Tilia europaea): A nervine, anti-spasmodic, anti-inflammatory, emmenagogue, hypotensive, diaphoretic, diuretic, astringent. Linden is well known as a relaxing remedy and in the treatment of raised blood pres . . . View Full Definition