Botany. 1  a tuft of silky hairs at the end of a seed. 2  the leafy crown of a tree; cluster of leaves at the end of a stem. 3  a terminal cluster of bracts, as in the pineapple.
The flexible pads are called base-isolators, whereas the structures protected by means of these devices are called base-isolated buildings. The main feature of the base isolation technology is that it introduces flexibility in the structure.
Force and surface tension dAdsL-FThe basic surface tension exper-iment is a 2-dimensional versionof the 3-dimensional experimentwith a piston in a container. Us-ing a soap ï¬lm and metal wireas both âcontainerâ and moveableâpistonâ, it can easily be carriedout in the home.