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1. Sink
   Place in the environment where a compound or material collects.
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2. Sink
   In modelling, a state variable outside the system boundary, ie. not quantified, to which outputs may go but do not return.
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3. 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 cannot be opened and the sink must be performed in an ad hoc manner. Closed sinks can often be turned into open sinks by a careful restructuring of the layers.
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4. 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...
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5. 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
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6. Sink
   is a reservoir that takes up a pollutant from another part of its cycle. Soil and trees act as natural “sinks� for carbon
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7. 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 ground acts as a sink for sulfur dioxide in the air.
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8. 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.
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9. Sink
   A stationary basin connected with a drain and water supply for washing and drainage.
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10. sink
    a place into which a liquid stream disappears (the outlet point of a sink flow) Category: Physics • a component or components of the climate system where a greenhouse gas or a precursor of a greenhouse gas is stored Category: Chemistry • any region in the tissues of an organi...
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11. Sink
    Sink (sĭnk) intransitive verb [ imperfect Sunk (sŭnk), or ( Sank (sănk)); past participle Sunk (obs. Sunken , -- now used as adj. )...
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12. 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....
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13. 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...
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14. 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.]
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15. 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....
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16. sink
    noun plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe
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17. 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`
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18. sink
    verb fall or drop to a lower place or level; `He sank to his knees`
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19. sink
    verb embed deeply; `She sank her fingers into the soft sand`; `He buried his head in her lap`
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20. 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, but both roots are less than one in absolute ...
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21. 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 ...
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22. 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 ...
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23. sink
    (from the article `atmosphere, evolution of`) ...that removes gas either chemically, as in the consumption of oxygen during the process of combustion, or physically, as in the loss of hydrogen to ... The dominant pathways by which gases are removed from the present atmosphere are discussed below in the section Biogeochemical cycles. Apa...
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24. Sink
    A reservoir that uptakes a chemical element or compound from another part of its cycle. For example, soil and trees tend to act as natural sinks for carbon.
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25. Sink
    Sink is slang for to drink down.
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