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heading 1. the angle between the direction of an aircraft and a specified meridian, often due north 2. the compass direction parallel to the keel of a vessel heading [′hed·iŋ] (civil engineering) In tunnel construction, one or more small tunnels excavated within a large tunnel cross section that will later be enlarged to full section. (navigation) The horizontal direction in which a ship actually points or heads at any instant, expressed in angular units from a reference direction, usually from 0° at the reference direction clockwise through 360°. In air navigation, the horizontal direction in which an aircraft points or heads, that is the direction of the longitudinal axis, measured as in the first definition. (petroleum engineering) An intermittent flow from an oil well. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Paul seals sing when they are heading back to their beaches in the summer. The next time it come I see I warn't heading for it, but heading away to the right of it. If the caligraphy be Poe's, it is different in all essential respects from all the many specimens known to us, and strongly resembles that of the writer of the heading and dating of the manuscript, both of which the contributor of the poem acknowledges to have been recently added. |
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