TAILFIN

Etymology

Noun

tailfin (plural tailfins)

A fin at the tail of a fish, caudal fin

A fin on the tail of an aircraft, vertical stabilizer

(automotive) A fin-like projection at the rear of a car, common on American cars of the 1950s.

Source: Wiktionary



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24 December 2024

INTUITIVELY

(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”


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According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.

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