1. Nautical The edge of a sail that faces the wind.
2. The front edge of an airplane propeller blade or wing.
3.
a. The foremost position in a trend or movement; the vanguard: "a company on the leading edge of machine-tool technology"(Christian Science Monitor).
b. Someone or something occupying such a position: "Together they are the leading edge of a new wing of historians known as cliometricians"(Timothy Foote).
Based on Tour feedback, Callaway has designed the wedges with a more compact shape, straighter leading edges, tighter leading-edge radii, and slightly more offset throughout the line, according to Callaway.
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British Airways Boeing 747-400 carrying 283 people on 11 May almost stalled just after take-off from Johannesburg following a spurious systems warning that automatically disabled some wing leading-edge high-lift devices.
This offers suppliers lower R&D costs, accelerated results in technology development, and more efficient and effective technology implementation into leading-edge production fabs.
A major advantage of the leading-edge technique developed by the Swiss biotech company Anecova SA is that it constitutes a return to a solution which is closer to the natural process.
This time, instead of the research being fragmented, CEMI and its industry partners can take on bigger, leading-edge projects in exploration, mining processes, deep mine research and environmental work.
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