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backlash
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
In mechanical engineering , backlash , sometimes called lash or play , is a clearance or lost motion in a mechanism caused by gaps between the parts. It can be defined as "the maximum distance or angle through which any part of a mechanical system may be ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Backlash \Back"lash`\ (b[a^]k"l[a^]sh`), n. [Back, adv. + lash.] (Mech.) The distance through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, resulting from looseness in fitting or from ...
Usage examples of backlash.
This backlash is associated with, among other things, the analysis of common sense and background knowledge, the flourishing of connectionism, and the investigation of human reasoning itself.
But a white backlash erupted in 1875, and Democratic-party activists linked up with remnants of the Ku Klux Klan to unleash a wave of riots and terror against blacks and their Republican allies.
Alone at the heart, he watched the orts scattering, even the largest ones backlashing from the sudden and intense glorylight that blazed through him.
FIS to impose a xenophobic anti-Western theocracy on Algeria would have produced a major backlash.
The longer that cane growers refuse to clean up their waste and the more unfiltered scum they pump into the watershed, the greater the public backlash.
He made out the dim hugeness of the floater to his left, sliding slowly downward into the water: there was still enough air in it to give it some buoyancy, and the bizarre, puddinglike consistency of the sand-glutted river provided some slight resistance to its entry, but yet the floater was plainly sinking, and Valentine knew that when it went under entirely it would kick up a perilous backlash nearby.
To lay warfetter on so many people was to open the way for a huge cumulative backlash to strike him, one which would certainly leave him either dead or insane.
He put his hands behind him and braced himself against the ground, fighting the backlash off.
My thoughts backlash with the collision of sense and idea, the explosion ripping through me.
Ignoring their suddenly spasming bodies and uncontrolled spitting and ululating, he rode the shock of the magical backlash into their minds, feeling the same pain they did.
If there was a backlash, someone had to survive to take word to the distant Darklady.
Once cast, the Thrael exists as a web of magic whose backlashes slay many linked to it if someone tries to wrest control of the Thrael from its creator, or craft a second Thrael that comes into contact with the first.
Moreover, the public and legislative backlash against the gathering of surfer's data by Internet ad agencies and other web sites - has led to growing ignorance regarding the profile of Internet users, their demography, habits, preferences and dislikes.
The public and legislative backlash against the gathering of surfers' data by Internet ad agencies and other web sites - has led to growing ignorance regarding the profile of Internet users, their demography, habits, preferences and dislikes.
Still, Nylan hammered the needle against the white-red shields, forcing more and more power into that thrust, more and more chaos, more and more disruption, fighting the chaos backlash, and the lines of fire that felt as if they streamed from the white wizards and fell like lashes across his mind and body.