ramp
[ramp] (engineering)
A uniformly sloping platform, walkway, or driveway.
A stairway which gives access to the main door of an airplane.
(hydrology)
An accumulation of snow forming an inclined plane between land or land ice and sea ice or shelf ice. Also known as drift ice foot.
(mining engineering)
A slope between levels in open-pit mining.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
Ramp
An inclined plane, used often as an alternative to stairs in a round or circular structure. It is also useful in complying with modifications to an existing structure for the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) requirements. See also Accessibility (handicapped).
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wild leek
wild leek
Short, pointed oval leaves, 2-3 leaves together on a scallion-like stalk, usually reddish at the base. Strong onion-leek smell. Leaves die before whitish yellow flowers appear. Similar to but weaker effects of garlic. Whole plant is edible.
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ramp
1. A sloped surface connecting two or more planes at different levels.
2. A concave sweep in a vertical plane.
3. The paved area of an airport between the terminal building and the taxiways, used to park airplanes during loading and unloading.
4. According to the Americans with Disabilities Act, a walking surface whose running slope is less steep than 1-in-20.
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ramp
Ramp- or wedge-type supersonic duct below design speed.
Ramp- or wedge-type supersonic duct at design speed.
Ramp- or wedge-type supersonic duct establishing multiple oblique shock.
ii. The sharp-edged wedge with a sloping wall forming the inner wall of a supersonic inlet duct to create an oblique shock wave(s) and thus improve pressure recovery, especially at supersonic speeds. A ramp normally has a variable geometry.
iii. The platform at the rear of the aircraft or helicopter from which loading is done.
An Illustrated Dictionary of Aviation Copyright © 2005 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved
The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.
Ramp
(in Russian, duchka, from Polish ducza, pit), a slope built of rock in a worked-out area of an underground coal mine. The ramp is used to bring the mineral down from overlying formations, to transport fill and reinforcement materials, and to provide communications between levels. During the working of the ore deposits, the short raises drilled upward from the haulage drift or crosscut to yield the ore broken out in the mining area are called ramps.
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.