Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The technology of using the flows and pressures of fluids in sensing, control, and information-processing systems with no moving parts.
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- noun The branch of
engineering andtechnology that is concerned with the construction of devices that use theflow andpressure of afluid incircuits analagous toelectronic ones
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Examples
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Then the lasers are floated in a mini-lake of ethanol (which accounts for the word "fluidics" in the name) and moved into position by a patterned array of light from a computer-controlled projector, which they refer to as optoelectronic tweezers (OET).
Scientific Blogging 2009
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Then the lasers are floated in a mini-lake of ethanol (which accounts for the word "fluidics" in the name) and moved into position by a patterned array of light from a computer-controlled projector, which they refer to as optoelectronic tweezers (OET).
Scientific Blogging 2009
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Then the lasers are floated in a mini-lake of ethanol (which accounts for the word "fluidics" in the name) and moved into position by a patterned array of light from a computer-controlled projector, which they refer to as optoelectronic tweezers (OET).
Scientific Blogging 2009
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Then the lasers are floated in a mini-lake of ethanol (which accounts for the word "fluidics" in the name) and moved into position by a patterned array of light from a computer-controlled projector, which they refer to as optoelectronic tweezers (OET).
Scientific Blogging News Releases 2009
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On the engineering side, the Lynx prototype had a light source, a scanner, and fluidics—all the ingredients Solexa needed.
The $1,000 Genome Kevin Davies 2010
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Potential Applications Grabbing and holding droplets could be useful in micro- fluidics; petal-inspired surface patterning could lend a fresh, misty sheen to everything from produce to artificial flowers and even fabric.
Just Dew It: What Scientists Can Learn From Flower Petals By Thomas Hayden 2008
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Potential Applications Grabbing and holding droplets could be useful in micro- fluidics; petal-inspired surface patterning could lend a fresh, misty sheen to everything from produce to artificial flowers and even fabric.
Just Dew It: What Scientists Can Learn From Flower Petals Thomas Hayden 2008
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Optics are making stable measurements, fluidics have fed the E. coli, the bugs are growing well and GLOWING, temperature, pressure, and humidity are stable at the right values.
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The core was open, like an exposed brain, its working synapses sparking photons up and down its length, its fluidics a marvel of imaginative engineering.
Suspicion Asimov, Isaac 1987
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IDEX Corporation IDEX is an applied solutions business that sells an array of pumps, flow meters and other fluidics systems and components and engineered products to customers in a range of markets worldwide.
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