lawn sprinkler
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The Feynman sprinkler problem is typically framed as a thought experiment about a type of lawn sprinkler that spins when fluid, such as water, is expelled out of its S-shaped tubes or "arms."
From Science Daily • Jan. 29, 2024
Most human cell phone users are located near the Earth’s surface, so the tower antennae are configured to send their signals parallel to the ground, covering it like lawn sprinkler spraying out water.
From Scientific American • May 23, 2023
As his lawn sprinkler ran one summer day in 2019, “I heard this spitting and sputtering … like when you go down to the bottom of a glass with a straw,” he said.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 26, 2022
It was worth it to meet Joanne Rogers, Mr. Rogers’s widow, who is a veritable lawn sprinkler of niceness.
From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2019
For a moment, halting on the first of the steps, the Wilbur twin became aware that just beyond him, almost to be grasped, was a veritable rainbow curved above a whirling lawn sprinkler.
From The Wrong Twin by Wilson, Harry Leon
