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  1. Sink
    [Floater album] Sink is an album released by Floater in September 1994. Lyrics of isolation and insanity are set against dark and moody aural landscapes, ambient sampling montages, and savage instrumental punch. Sink received a preliminary Grammy nomination in the category of Best Rock Album...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sink_(Floater_album)

  2. Sink
    [computing] In computing, a sink or event sink is a class or function designed to receive incoming events from another object or function. This is commonly implemented in C++ as callbacks. Object-oriented languages, such as Java and C#, have built-in support for sinks by allowing events to b...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sink_(computing)

  3. Sink
    [disambiguation] A sink is a bowl-shaped fixture used for washing hands or small objects. Sink may also refer to: ==People with the name== ...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sink_(disambiguation)

  4. Sink
    [Foetus album] Sink is a Foetus Inc compilation album first released in 1989 on Self Immolation/Some Bizzare and Wax Trax! Records. It compiles rare and unreleased songs from various Foetus projects from 1981–1989. Many of the rare tracks on the album have been edited shorter than their or...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sink_(Foetus_album)

  5. Sink
    Place in the environment where a compound or material collects.
    Found op http://www.epa.gov/OCEPAterms/

  6. Sink
    In modelling, a state variable outside the system boundary, ie. not quantified, to which outputs may go but do not return.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contributions.php

  7. Sink
    a complex fold in which a corner of the model is turned inside out to become a pocket. Sinks may be either open or closed. An open sink is one in which the layers of the paper can be opened to allow the sink to be achieved in a structured manner. A closed sink is one where the layers of the paper ca...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contributions.php

  8. sink
    [n] - plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe 2. [v] - go under, `The raft sank and its occupants drowned` 3. [v] - cause to sink 4. [v] - fall or drop to a lower place or level 5. [v] - pass into a specified state or condit...
    Found op http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definition.php?query=sink

  9. Sink
    Undesired depressions in the surface of a part that are caused by the shrinking of resin as it solidifies. Sink is most common in thick sections of a part
    Found op http://www.protomold.co.uk/Glossary.xhtml

  10. Sink
    is a reservoir that takes up a pollutant from another part of its cycle. Soil and trees act as natural “sinks� for carbon
    Found op http://www.epaw.co.uk/EPT/glossary.html

  11. sink
    In environmental chemistry, an area or part of the environment in which, or a process by which, one or more pollutants is removed from the medium in which it is dispersed. Note: For example - moist grou...
    Found op http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro/iupacglossary/glossarys.html

  12. Sink
    Or drop is a page layout technique based on reducing column height and adding white space to the top of each page. Sinks unify a publication and provide page to-page continuity.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20829



  1. Sink
    A stationary basin connected with a drain and water supply for washing and drainage.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20844

  2. Sink
    Sink (sĭnk) intransitive verb [ imperfect Sunk (sŭnk), or ( Sank (sănk)); past participle Sunk (obs. Sunken , -- now used as adj. )...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/107

  3. Sink
    Sink transitive verb 1. To cause to sink; to put under water; to immerse or submerge in a fluid; as, to sink a ship. « [ The Athenians] fell upon the wings and sank a single ship.» Jowett (Thucyd.). 2....
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/107

  4. Sink
    Sink noun 1. A drain to carry off filthy water; a jakes. 2. A shallow box or vessel of wood, stone, iron, or other material, connected with a drain, and used for receiving filthy water, etc., as in a kitchen. 3. A hole or low pl...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/107

  5. Sink
    Sink (sĭnk) noun The lowest part of a natural hollow or closed basin whence the water of one or more streams escapes by evaporation; as, the sink of the Humboldt River. [ Western U. S.]
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/107

  6. sink
    1. A drain to carry off filthy water; a jakes. ... 2. A shallow box or vessel of wood, stone, iron, or other material, connected with a drain, and used for receiving filthy water, etc, as in a kitchen. ... 3. A hole or low place in land or rock, where waters sink and are lost; called also sink hole....
    Found op http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictionary?sink

  7. sink
    noun plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=sink

  8. sink
    noun (technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system; `the ocean is a sink for carbon dioxide`
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=sink

  9. sink
    verb fall or drop to a lower place or level; `He sank to his knees`
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=sink

  10. sink
    verb embed deeply; `She sank her fingers into the soft sand`; `He buried his head in her lap`
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=sink

  11. sink
    'In a second-order [linear difference equation] system, if both roots are positive and less than one, then the system converges monotonically to the steady state. If the roots are complex and lie inside the unit circle then the system spirals into the steady state. If at least one root is negative, ...
    Found op http://www.econterms.com/glossary.cgi?query=sink

  12. Sink
    • (n.) The lowest part of a natural hollow or closed basin whence the water of one or more streams escapes by evaporation; as, the sink of the Humboldt River. • (v. i.) To enter deeply; to fall or retire beneath or below the surface; to penetrate. • (v. t.) To reduce or extinguish by ...
    Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/sink/

  13. sink
    (from the article `angiosperm`) ...into sieve tubes at source regions (places of photosynthesis or mobilization and exportation of storage products) raises the osmotic pressure in ...
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/s/101

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