edge control
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From edge + control.
Senses: topics: cosmetics
lifestyle
glosses: A hair product formulated to hold down baby or fine hair.
examples: text: As a gauge of its importance, consider that when an instructor or racer speaks of someone having amazing edge control, he means that that skier is a master of the slopes.
ref: 1967 December, Doug Pfeiffer, “Instruction Corner”, in Skiing, volume 20, number 3, page 111:
text: Many people say that skaters who had to do figures learned to freeskate better because figures teach you edge control.
ref: 1997, Brian Boitano, Suzanne Harper, Boitano's Edge: Inside The Real World Of Figure Skating, page 27:
text: Skateboards roll. They do not slide. The demands of edge control aren't involved in the physics of this sport.
ref: 2010, Doug Werner, Snowboarder's Start-Up: A Beginner's Guide to Snowboarding, page 3:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skating
skiing
snowboarding
sports
glosses: The controlled use and placement of the edge of a skate, ski, or snowboard.
examples: text: These help keep the knees locked into the side of the kayak and help with edge control.
ref: 2002, Franco Ferrero, Canoe and Kayak Handbook, page 51:
text: Analyze your edge control to figure out exactly what you need to do with your knee, foot, leg, hip, and body.
ref: 2017, Nigel Foster, The Art of Kayaking: Everything You Need to Know About Paddling, page 43:
text: This provides additional edge control over your kayak and helps keep your butt from falling out of the seat when you are upside-down.
ref: 2019, Ken Whiting, Anna Levesque, Kevin Varette, Whitewater Kayaking:
qualifier: kayaking
glosses: A skill in edging; the ability to maintain one gunwale higher than the other at a controlled angle.
examples: text: Trailing edge control surface configurations may be composed of a full span, inboard partial-span, outboard tip partial-span, or up to six individual control surfaces, including side-by-side common edge control surfaces, and nested controls.
ref: 1975, Prediction of Unsteady Aerodynamic Loadings Caused by Leading Edge and Trailing Edge Control Surface Motions in Subsonic Compressible Flow, page 63:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The management and manipulation of the edges of an aircraft's wings or control surfaces to enhance performance and stability.
examples: text: We do not feel that it is necessary to go below 3 inch rotors since an effective edge control strategy will control the narrow edge shape problem without an accurate measurement of the problem.
ref: 1984, Aluminum Association Shape Control Workshop Papers, page 22:
text: Edge control not only helps to meet the need for strip shape quality, but also improve the yield of strip.
ref: 2011, Hui Xuan Zhang, Ye Han, Fu Xiao Chen, Materials and Computational Mechanics, page 134:
text: Center and edge control of linewidth and isolated and nested lines have been the primary control metrics of interest for plasma etching .
ref: 2018, William S. Levine, The Control Handbook, pages 11-15:
text: From the perspective of cyber-physical space mapping, the technologies of software definition and virtualization modeling are extended to edge hardware resources (including: terminal device resources, edge control device resources, edge computing resources, edge storage resources) and edge application services.
ref: 2020, Pengfei Hu, Chunming He, “Edge Computing-Based Solution and Framework for Software-Defined Industrial Intelligent Control in Industrial Internet of Things”, in Huansheng Ning, Feifei Shi, editor, Cyberspace Data and Intelligence, and Cyber-Living, Syndrome, and Health, page 148:
topics: arts
design
glosses: Control over the exact placement of edges on a line or shape one is mapping, cutting, or etching.
examples: text: It is conditioned by edge control, minimizing threats to personal danger, resolving the encounter, avoiding excessive paperwork, and getting on with something more interesting.
ref: 2012, Carol Archbold, Policing: A Text/Reader, page 399:
text: In this section I describe edge control as a phenomenon associated with the contingent (or unpredictable) nature of police-citizen interactions.
ref: 2014, John P. Crank, Understanding Police Culture, page 174:
text: A great deal of police work is about edge control.
ref: 2018, Michael Caldero, Jeffrey Dailey, Brian Withrow, Police Ethics: The Corruption of Noble Cause, page 199:
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: The management of an unpredictable situation in order to prevent it from becoming physically dangerous.