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Challenge

An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind a defiance specifically a summons to fight a duel also the letter or message conveying the summons

Citation

An official summons or notice given to a person to appear the paper containing such summons or notice

colliding beam machine

a particle accelerator in which two separate beams of particles usually of opposite charge are circulated in opposite directions and directed so as to collide head on called also colliding beam accelerator and collider

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Commutator

A piece of apparatus used for reversing the direction of an electrical current an attachment to certain electrical machines by means of which alternating currents are made

counterclockwise

in the opposite direction to that in which the hands of a clock rotate as viewed from in front of the clock

Diverge

To extend from a common point in different directions to tend from one point and recede from each other to tend to spread apart to turn aside

Scalar

In the quaternion analysis a quantity that has magnitude but not direction distinguished from a vector which has both magnitude and direction

East

point on the earth that one of the four cardinal points of the compass which is in a direction at right angles to that of north and south and which is toward the right hand of one

Half ray

A straight line considered as drawn from a center to an indefinite distance in one direction the complete ray being the whole line drawn to an indefinite distance in both directions

Isotropic

Having the same properties in all directions specifically equally elastic in all directions

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