The George Washington Bridge â known informally as the GW Bridge, the GWB, the GW, or the George â is a double-decked suspension bridge spanning the Hudson River between the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City and Fort Lee, New Jersey.
Definition of skin effect. : an effect characteristic of current distribution in a conductor at high frequencies by virtue of which the current is greater near the surface of the conductor than in its interior resulting in an increase of resistance with increasing frequency.
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Coanda effect or wall-attachment effect, the tendency of a moving fluid, either liquid or gas, to attach itself to a surface and flow along it. As a fluid moves across a surface a certain amount of friction (called skin friction ) occurs between the fluid and the surface, which tends to slow the moving fluid.