Teardrop eyewash?The teardrop tear·drop n. 1. A single tear. 2. An object shaped like a tear. shape of Venus away from the centermost part of the sun ("Heavenly Passage" SN: 7/10/04, p. 24) simply is caused by the photographic surface being planar A technique developed by Fairchild Instruments that creates transistor sublayers by forcing chemicals under pressure into exposed areas. Planar superseded the mesa process and was a major step toward creating the chip. , rather than spherical. The image can never be represented without distortion for the same reason that the globe can't be represented without distortion on a flat map. ROBERT P. KELSO, SAN MARCOS, TEXAS San Marcos is a city in Texas, USA. The population was 34,733 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Hays County.GR6 Texas State University-San Marcos (formerly Southwest Texas State University) is located in the city. The origins of this teardrop shape are still being investigated.--R. COWEN |
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