(n.) A large triangular sail set upon a boom, -- used when running before the wind.
Example Sentences:
(1) At surgery a redundant flap of septum secundum was found that was adjacent to the inferior vena cava orifice, intercepting its blood return like a spinnaker and shunting it into the left atrium.
(2) As Professor Steve Furber, who heads SpiNNaker, explains: "The solution we came up with was basically when a neuron goes 'ping' this is represented as a very small packet in an electronic communication network.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Doris Long after her successful descent of the Spinnaker tower.
(4) One such project is SpiNNaker , short for spiking neural architecture.
(5) Stimulated by our experience with two patients seen at operation, one with an obstructive spinnaker-like formation and the other with a partitioned right atrium in the setting of pulmonary atresia, we reviewed the specimens in the heart museum of Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh that had prominence of the eustachian and thebesian valves.
(6) Her feat of extreme rappelling, descending 94m down the Spinnaker tower in Portsmouth on Sunday, reminded me that the spirit of adventure, of discovery and the need to defy death are innate in all of us regardless of our age.
(7) Wind and rain did not deter Doris Long, who has been honoured with an MBE for her charity fundraising, as she abseiled down the spinnaker tower in Portsmouth , Hampshire.
(8) Anterior rectal wall pressure on rectal examination shows a definite occult rectocele (spinnaker deformity) coupled with a deficient scarred perineum.
(9) Also of the Eiffel Tower, the Seattle Space Needle, the Rotterdam Euromast, the Portsmouth Spinnaker Tower, the Oriental Pearl TV tower in Shanghai and the Unisphere of the 1964 New York World's Fair.