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Terms vs Backshot - What's the difference?

terms | backshot |

As nouns the difference between terms and backshot

is that terms is while backshot is (chiefly|sport).

As an adjective backshot is

(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.

terms

English

Noun

(head)

    • Statistics

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    backshot

    English

    Adjective

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  • (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.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chiefly, sport)
  • (geology)

    • Coordinate terms

    * foreshot, midshot * undershot