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Definition of Nappe
1. n. Sheet; surface; all that portion of a surface that is continuous in such a way that it is possible to pass from any one point of the portion to any other point of the portion without leaving the surface. Thus, some hyperboloids have one nappe, and some have two.
Definition of Nappe
1. Noun. The profile of a body of water flowing over an obstruction in a vertical drop. ¹
2. Noun. (mathematics) Either of the two parts of a double cone. ¹
3. Noun. (geology) A sheet-like mass of rock that has been folded over adjacent strata. ¹
4. Noun. (context: hydraulics) Nappe, the underside of which is not in contact with the overflow structure and is at ambient atmospheric pressure. ¹
5. Noun. (context: cooking) The ability of a liquid to "coat the back of a spoon" or the act of coating a food. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nappe
1. a type of rock formation [n -S]
Medical Definition of Nappe
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Nappe
Literary usage of Nappe
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of hydraulics for the solution of hydraulic problems by Horace Williams King (1918)
"The nappe may undergo several of these modifications in succession as the head
... The head at which the changes of nappe form occur vary with the rate of ..."
2. Design and Construction of Hydroelectric Plants: Including a Special by Rufus Charles Beardsley (1907)
"nappe is the name given to that part of the crest of the dam which is in direct
contact ... The various forms of nappe are as follows: Depressed, wetted, ..."
3. A Treatise on Hydraulics by Hector James Hughes, Arthur Truman Safford (1911)
"The upstream face should be vertical ; and the downstream face so nearly vertical
that the nappe cannot touch it. Weirs of irregular section are those in ..."
4. The Control of Water as Applied to Irrigation, Power and Town Water Supply by Philip à Morley Parker (1913)
"The method has, however, been systematically employed by French engineers with
satisfactory results. Sketch No. 33 represents a drowned weir and nappe of ..."
5. A Treatise on Hydraulics by Henry Taylor Bovey (1901)
"Drowned nappe. eluded and the nappe is wetted underneath or drowned, Fig. 70.
The latter condition, when the nappe encloses an eddying muss of fluid, ..."
6. Hydraulics by Frederick Charles Lea (1908)
"Discharge of a weir when the air is not freely admitted beneath the nappe.
Form of the nappe. Francis in the Lowell experiments, found that, by making the ..."
7. A Treatise on Analytical Geometry: With Applications to Lines and Surfaces by William Guy Peck (1876)
"Equation of an Hyperboloid of one nappe. • 108. A nappe, is a sheet, or branch
of a surface. An hyperboloid of one nappe, is a surface that may be generated ..."
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