Backshot vs Foreshot - What's the difference?
backshot | foreshot | coordinate terms |
(of a water wheel) Having the water introduced just behind the summit, combining the advantages of breastshot and overshot systems, since the full amount of the potential energy released by the falling water is harnessed as the water descends the back of the wheel.
The spirits that first come over when an alcoholic liquid is distilled
(chiefly, sport)
(geology)
* 1997 , Proceedings of the Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental Problems , volume 2:
Foreshot is a coordinate term of backshot.
As an adjective backshot
is having the water introduced just behind the summit, combining the advantages of breastshot and overshot systems, since the full amount of the potential energy released by the falling water is harnessed as the water descends the back of the wheel.As a noun foreshot is
the spirits that first come over when an alcoholic liquid is distilled.backshot
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(-)Coordinate terms
* foreshot, midshot * undershotforeshot
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(en noun)- Foreshots knock the ball forward.
- Twelve foreshot and twelve backshot records at varying offsets were acquired for each geophone setup to achieve 24 fold duplicity.