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bladeOne component in a system that is designed to accept some number of components (blades). Blades can be individual servers or clients that plug into a single cabinet or individual port cards that add connectivity to a switch. A blade is typically a hot swappable hardware device, but a software architecture could use the blade terminology as well. See blade server and blade PC. blade 1. the flattened expanded part of a leaf, sepal, or petal 2. the long narrow leaf of a grass or related plant 3. Archaeol a long thin flake of flint, possibly used as a tool 4. short for shoulder blade blade [blād] (botany) The broad, flat portion of a leaf. Also known as lamina. (electricity) A flat moving conductor in a switch. (engineering) A broad, flat arm of a fan, turbine, or propeller. The broad, flat surface of a bulldozer or snowplow by which the material is moved. The part of a cutting tool, such as a saw, that cuts. (vertebrate zoology) A single plate of baleen. 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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In nursery crops, the disease impacts leaves—showing up as dark grey-to-brown lesions with indistinct edges that appear on the leaf blade, vascular tissue or petiole. She quickly decided that the petioles, the little stems that connect a leaf blade to a twig, looked most promising as a source of unspecialized tissue. August Chadwich of Woodland Hills writes with the following question: ``Does watering indoor plants from above with a watering can (as opposed to soaking water up from below), contribute to the ends of the plants' leaf blades turning brown and drying up? |
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