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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
spinnaker
noun
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▪ As the sail whipped free of the masthead, he leaped back into the cockpit to loose the spinnaker sheets.
▪ Coaching on trapeze and spinnaker handling completes the package.
▪ He gathered in the tarpaulin as a yachtsman might a spinnaker and dumped it behind him before peering into the semi-darkness.
▪ In winds of up to 14 knots true you can begin to spinnaker reach with the 1.5oz at 60 ° apparent.
▪ Martin uses balloon fabric, as it does not crease as easily as spinnaker ripstop.
▪ The wardrobe also includes a 130 percent overlapping headsail and a heavy 1.50z spinnaker from the Sanders loft.
▪ Use balloon ripstop on a 110-degree narrow Delta steerable kite, and you will soon discover why the spinnaker nylon is best.
▪ Wherever you look, water glints and a collage of spinnakers billows over Perth Water.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spinnaker

Spinnaker \Spin"na*ker\, n. (Naut.) A large triangular sail set upon a boom, -- used when running before the wind.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
spinnaker

"large triangular sail," 1866, either a derivative of spin in the sense of "go rapidly" or a corrupt pronunciation of Sphinx, which was the name of the first yacht known to carry this type of sail.

Wiktionary
spinnaker

n. (context nautical English) A supplemental sail to the main sail, especially a triangular one, used on yachts for running before the wind.

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WordNet
spinnaker

n. large and usually triangular headsail; carried by a yacht as a headsail when running before the wind

Wikipedia
SpiNNaker

SpiNNaker (Spiking Neural Network Architecture) is a manycore computer architecture designed by the Advanced Processor Technologies Research Group (APT) at the School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, led by Steve Furber, to simulate the human brain.(see Human Brain Project). It is planned to use 1 million ARM processors (currently .5 million) in a massively parallel computing platform based on spiking neural networks.

The completed design is to be housed in 10 19-inch racks each rack holds 100,000 cores the cards themselves holding the chips are held in 5 Blade enclosures and each chip emulates 1000 Neurons.

SpiNNaker is being used as one component of the Neuromorphic Computing Platform for the Human Brain Project.

Spinnaker (disambiguation)

A spinnaker is a type of sail.

Spinnaker can also refer to:

  • The Spinnaker, the official student newspaper of the University of North Florida
  • Spinnaker Tower, a building in Portsmouth, United Kingdom
  • Spinnaker Software, a former software company
  • SpiNNaker (Spiking Neural Network architecture), a computer designed to simulate the human brain
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Usage examples of "spinnaker".

Near the window the poet had bound Soli to the bole of a spinnaker tree.

There were no more squalls, naught but fine weather, a fair wind, and a whirling log, with sheets slacked off and with spinnaker and mainsail swaying and bellying on either side.

Once beyond the end of the jetty the mast sails extruded their taut triangular expanses, and then, as the wind was from behind, the crew set a big blue kite spinnaker out front.

Ray, the linguist, listened to and memorized words like spinnaker, mast, bow, stern, aft, tiller, halyard winches, masthead fittings, shrouds, lifelines, stanchions, sheet winch, bow pulpit, coamings, transom, clew outhaul, genoa sheets, mainsail, jib, jibstays, jib sheets, cam cleats and boom vangs.

If it ties in with SPINNAKER, well, maybe there's been some creative accounting on the part of the Soviet Army.

The wind was inflating his shirt like a spinnaker and his face was pinched with the pain of the icy gusts.