shielding

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The challenge is that languages, frameworks, and tooling are are not shielding the developer from the growing complexity.

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(spectroscopy) The situation, in NMR spectroscopy, in which a local magnetic field is weakened by the presence of neighbouring nuclei

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The clearest senses and uses of shielding gathered in one view.

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(spectroscopy) The situation, in NMR spectroscopy, in which a local magnetic field is weakened by the presence of neighbouring nuclei

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(soccer) Action done by the person with the ball to protect the ball from the defender; the person concerned keeps his body between the ball and the defender.

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Core meanings and parts of speech for shielding.

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(spectroscopy) The situation, in NMR spectroscopy, in which a local magnetic field is weakened by the presence of neighbouring nuclei

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(soccer) Action done by the person with the ball to protect the ball from the defender; the person concerned keeps his body between the ball and the defender.

Example sentences

The challenge is that languages, frameworks, and tooling are are not shielding the developer from the growing complexity.

You'd also have the advantage of the people in the top rows shielding the bottom people from radiation.

What are the resource costs for shielding from EMP vs creating an EMP strong enough to make a difference?

An RF modulator generates a lot of interference, so fitting one stock would require expensive shielding.

And kind of me shielding the devs from the operations wanting feedback and a quick resolution.

And don't forget all the extra shielding you need to protect circuitry from solar winds.

Water is useful as fuel (LOX and liquid hydrogen or methane), as reaction mass, and as radiation shielding when you're flying around.

Alphas are positively charged, so they too are stopped by very light shielding.

They keep most of the details classified because they use emanation attacks in the field and they don't want shielding spreading too far.

I do take care of the people I recruit by shielding most communication between the new hires and the CEO.

Pretty much everything the military uses has a measure of EMP shielding.

Now they are a big company and the news in California illustrate the kind of risk the intermediary agencies are shielding big business from.

Quote examples

Random bit-flips can spell disaster, so you need to either bring a ton of shielding, redundant (and well-tested, aka "outdated") systems, or both.

Edit: sorry I was looking at the airhopper paper, doh Yeah in the paper it mentions about cable shielding, "The effective distance is the maximal distance between the transmitter and the receiver, at which the transmission quality is still acceptable.

In this case the tests weren't even normalized, this is one of the 1st tests that was conducted in vacuum under shielding, many of the earlier tests were not even thermally or electromagnetically shielded, considering the tiny amounts of thrust generated by both the "predictions" and the tests pressure difference due to thermal variance as well as magnetic forces could explain it just as well.

From what "aikah" posted below, it sounds like shielding consists of requiring proper driver training, equivalent of commercial insurance on the vehicle, and license (which probably involves some mandatory maintenance, as commercially utilized vehicles tend to have higher mileage and higher level of abuse than personal vehicles).