Fixed exchange-rate system — Foreign exchange Exchange rates Currency band Exchange rate Exchange rate regime Exchange rate flexibil … Wikipedia
Mechanism (engineering) — A mechanism is a device designed to transform input forces and movement into a desired set of output forces and movement. Mechanisms generally consist of moving components such as gears and gear trains, belt and chain drives, cam and follower… … Wikipedia
Fixed action pattern — Kelp Gull chicks peck at red spot on mother s beak to stimulate regurgitating reflex. In ethology, a fixed action pattern (FAP), or modal action pattern, is an instinctive behavioral sequence that is indivisible and runs to completion.[1] … Wikipedia
Fixed-gear bicycle — A fixed gear bicycle or fixed wheel bicycle, is a bicycle without the ability to coast. The sprocket is screwed directly on to the hub and there is no freewheel mechanism. A reverse thread lockring is usually fitted to prevent the sprocket from… … Wikipedia
Fixed-point combinator — Y combinator redirects here. For the technology venture capital firm, see Y Combinator (company). In computer science, a fixed point combinator (or fixpoint combinator[1] ) is a higher order function that computes a fixed point of other functions … Wikipedia
Mechanism (technology) — A mechanism is some technical aspect of a larger process or mechanical device, or combination of parts designed to perform a particular function. Sometimes an entire machine may be referred to as a mechanism. Examples are the steering mechanism… … Wikipedia
Fixed Survey Meter — The Fixed Survey Meter was a specialist detection instrument used by the Royal Observer Corps during the Cold War between 1958 and 1982 to detect ionising radiation from nuclear fallout generated by a ground burst. [… … Wikipedia
New Economic Mechanism — The New Economic Mechanism (NEM) was a major economic reform launched in the People s Republic of Hungary in 1968. Contents 1 Reform 2 Enterprises 3 Prices 4 Foreign Trade … Wikipedia
Overconstrained mechanism — A Sarrus linkage. An overconstrained mechanism is a linkage that has more degrees of freedom than is predicted by the mobility formula. The mobility formula evaluates the degree of freedom of a system of rigid bodies that results when constraints … Wikipedia
Antikythera mechanism — The Antikythera mechanism (main fragment) The Antikythera mechanism ( / … Wikipedia
Higgs mechanism — The Higgs mechanism is spontaneous symmetry breaking in a gauge theory.It considers all of space filled with a quantum field, called the Higgs field, the interaction with which prevents certain forces from propagating over long distances. Part of … Wikipedia