Unbending; recreation; a state or occupation intended to give mental or bodily relief after effort
The loss of clamping force in a bolt which commonly occurs as a result of embedment Can also be caused by gasket creep, differential temperature expansion or vibration loosening
a method of solving simultaneous equations by guessing a solution and then reducing the errors that result by successive approximations until all the errors are less than some specified amount an occurrence of control or strength weakening; "the relaxation of requirements"; "the loosening of his grip"; "the slackening of the wind"
(physics) the exponential return of a system to equilibrium after a disturbance (physiology) the gradual lengthening of inactive muscle or muscle fibers
In golf, perhaps more than in any other game, relaxation is essential Any tension in a player's body is instantly transferred to the swing or the putting motion, and the results are invariably disastrous Even a slightly taut muscle can misdirect the path of the clubhead, sending an expensive ball into the water An unnecessarily stiffened joint can lead to the kind of jarring, ground-hitting stroke that causes cumulative shaft-related damage to costly clubs and can lead to possible bone injury as well And an overly rigid grip could, paradoxically, cause a muscular twitch that might allow the club to slip from the fingers during the follow-through, perhaps maiming another player and triggering a multimillion-dollar lawsuit So for goodness sake, try to relax!
In a real system, each particle has a birth date (eg , the formation of a star from a condensing gas cloud), at which time it enters an initial orbit As the system ages, particles are perturbed from their initial orbits both by the slowly changing global potential, and by collisions The process acting on individual particles is similar to a random walk; the cumulative effect on the system is called relaxation A system is relaxed when no information remains about the initial orbits of most particles More formally, if we look at the collisions experienced by a single particle and is the deflection in radians caused by each collision c, then if most particles satisfy then the system is relaxed Similar arguments can be made for the relative change in orbital energy or orbital angular momentum per collision A slightly more detailed analysis [9, chapter 4,] shows that the relaxation time is about crossing times
Remission from attention and effort; indulgence in recreation, diversion, or amusement