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climb

[klīm]

(aerospace engineering)

The gain in altitude of an aircraft.

climb

i. Ascending flight.
ii. The portion of flight operation between takeoff and the initial cruising altitude. Also called climb-out.

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LUCKEY will be a one-hour documentary for public television about a paralyzed sculptor who is building a three-story climbable sculpture for the Boston Children's Museum.

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He added: "If it's climbable, it's going to get ruined.

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There are no body searches, no rubber gloves, no electrodes' just a camera at the gate and some eminently climbable Cotswold stone.

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"I didn't realize that Mount Kilimanjaro was climbable for someone like me, but I decided that this was something I could do, even though I was the oldest in the group."

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And the standard does require use of the materials at the access and egress points of equipment that is climbable. It also says that all impact attenuating surfaces, if used, shall be self-draining, shall not retain water and shall not create an environment that results in the growth of algae or bacteria.

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On the 5-acre property where I gained permission to hunt in the opening story, most of the climbable trees are covered with poison ivy, which I avoid.

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It was flanked at either end by climbable open-grid metal towers from which announcements could be shouted and massive propaganda banners unfurled.

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Many who conquer the falls near Field seek out other climbable ice at Three Valley Gap near Revelstoke, at Marble Canyon Provincial Park in the Chilcotin region of the central Interior, or at Soo Bluffs and Shannon Falls near Whistler.

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From climbable temples, I could see for miles over the lowland jungle; other temples rose above the trees.

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"In some, you can only have vertical railing systems because the horizontal are considered climbable." When Marsh started out in 1979, the minimum distance between vertical rails was 9 inches.

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Maximum lateral inclination (48 degrees), steepest climbable gradient (39 degrees), wading depth and so on.

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Never place climbable furniture or objects near windows, stoves or medicine cabinets.