Topic, Focus and Quantification
TL;DR: An airvane for use with bluff vehicles and the like to reduce air drag thereon is disclosed wherein the airvanes includes a curved portion and a generally planar portion.
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About: This article is published in Semantics and Linguistic Theory. The article was published on 03 Apr 1991. and is currently open access. The article focuses on the topics: Focus (computing).
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