Meaning of dip in English

This dip did not, however, remove plumbers from the top echelon of wage-earners.

This is an expansive work, which makes it a joy to browse through, dip into and refer back to.

This higher-than-proportional level is due to a certain amount of 'double dipping' which children from separated parents may experience.

This device will generate a smooth power output by removing the peaks and dips from any power input.

The most interesting thing in this figure is the two peaks which are almost equal, and the dip between them.

An exception to this is rare layering observed in the olivine glomerocrystic gabbro, where layering may dip either inwards or outwards.

The dip below the logarithmic law usually observed in two-dimensional concave wall boundary layers is absent.

A set of copper strips dipped in mercury-filled grooves was used for both high power and low noise circuits.

A water gong is a musical gong that is dipped into a tank of water.

Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis infection of sheep : role of skin lesions and dipping fluids.

Individual frequencies that are mixed together in order to create sonic masses follow reciprocal types of motion, including undulations, surges, swirls, drifts and dips.

These flanking beds dip away from the massive core at low angles (less than 30°).

This dip develops in a region where the ions experience rapid acceleration due to an abrupt increase in the electric field.

Thicknesses estimated from structural dip of the units where intersected by boreholes or at outcrop.

This is because the sheet dip of folded horizons is frequently close to horizontal so that the topographic surface often intersects such horizons tangentially.

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