limpet

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Just a fishing boat, a GPS, a limpet mine, and a few hundred feet of rope.

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Quick take

To gather limpets.

Meaning at a glance

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verb

To gather limpets.

noun

(British) Someone clingy or dependent; someone disregarding or ignorant of another's personal space.

noun

Any of various gastropods with a conical shell shape patelliform and a strong, muscular foot that they use to create strong suction to cling onto rocks or other hard surfaces.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for limpet.

verb

To gather limpets.

noun

(British) Someone clingy or dependent; someone disregarding or ignorant of another's personal space.

noun

Any of various gastropods with a conical shell shape patelliform and a strong, muscular foot that they use to create strong suction to cling onto rocks or other hard surfaces.

Example sentences

Just a fishing boat, a GPS, a limpet mine, and a few hundred feet of rope.

You could track people back to their bases with limpet mines and use fighter destruction reports to find occupied space.

A startup has since been founded to commercially farm limpet teeth for use in aircraft.

Bonus points if you can attach a magnetic limpet mine to them for future usage.

Practically anyone with a boat and a limpet mine could have done this.

These attacks are relatively low-tech, besides the limpet mines everything else can be bought from general sporting good / diving stores for it.

The experiments with long-term professional legislatures have generally not been very promising - rather than statesmen it tends to be people with a certain limpet-like staying power and a limpet-like ability to learn from their mistakes.

Countries in the west has a long history of military infiltrators who are trained to swim/float to enemy ships and place limpet mines on them.

A lecturer of mine published a paper on bivalve adhesion that was allegedly funded by government interests desperate to maintain a strategic lead in limpet mines.

We had a lab assignment to do a live vivisection of a limpet to be able to view some of the circulatory systems in play in a still-living creature.

I thought limpet teeth were the strongest material known?

Member sizes below the critical diameter for flaw-sensitivity are crucial to the hardness and durability of, for example, human teeth and limpet teeth, as well as the resilience of bone and jade.

Quote examples

All you need is a "data limpet", sort of like a limpet mine, but it serves data instead of explosions.

From a 2022 study in Nature (1) where researchers grew limpet teeth: "The proof-of-concept presented in this study can be scaled up using made-to-measure chitin sheets and synthetic substitutes for limpet cell-conditioned media.

Is it a "notification" or a longterm limpet on the hull?

> The tensile strength of discrete volumes of limpet tooth material measured using in situ atomic force microscopy was found to range from 3.0 to 6.5 GPa Also "compressive strength" is not really a thing, in that it's only a metric that is useful for practical applications.