We also had a lot of luck, favorable weather, a capable crew, access to equipment, multiple escape routes, and an intimate knowledge of the terrain.
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Other gear, like chainsaws or Pulaski tools, comes down as cargo from the same plane from about 150 feet above the terrain.
How aerial firefighters battle blazes from the skies|Rob Verger|August 27, 2020|Popular Science
Perhaps, in the end, our galaxy, and even our universe, is simply the test tube for a vast chemical computation exploring a mathematical terrain of possibilities that stretches on to infinity.
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Like its predecessor on the Curiosity rover, the camera will take color, 3-D and panoramic images to help scientists understand the terrain and the mineralogy of the surrounding rocks.
NASA’s Perseverance rover will seek signs of past life on Mars|Lisa Grossman|July 28, 2020|Science News
The video primarily shows off BigDog’s ability to balance on its own, right itself, and move over uneven terrain.
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It is this kind of terrain that makes this country so hard to secure.
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The drawback was that the terrain in front of Bradley made success very costly.
Blood in the Sand: When James Jones Wrote a Grunt’s View of D-Day|James Jones|November 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
As forbidding as this terrain is, there is another force at work on the ocean surface – the Antarctic Circumpolar Current.
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It depends on the strengths of the team members and the terrain.
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Pearson did note that laws regulating this terrain can be useful in some very narrow circumstances.
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A real ghost could have done that, I suppose, but so could any person in reasonable physical shape who knew the terrain.
The Blue Ghost Mystery|Harold Leland Goodwin
Shann studied the terrain with more knowledge than he had possessed a week earlier.
Storm Over Warlock|Andre Norton
The terrain here in Virginia is specially fit for attacks in columns, according to continental European tactics.
Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863|Adam Gurowski
Bill scanned the terrain ahead, vainly seeking the burnt-over area.
Bill Bruce on Forest Patrol|Henry Harley Arnold
Judging from the nature of the terrain, the range of gracilis does not extend eastward much beyond the Raft River Mountains.
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British Dictionary definitions for terrain
terrain
/ (təˈreɪn, ˈtɛreɪn) /
noun
ground or a piece of ground, esp with reference to its physical character or military potentialradio reception can be difficult in mountainous terrain; a rocky terrain
a variant spelling of terrane
Word Origin for terrain
C18: from French, ultimately from Latin terrēnum ground, from terra earth