Extremity
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Gideon Spilett proposed to continue the exploration, that the question of the supposed wreck might be completely settled, and he asked at what distance Claw Cape might be from the
extremity
of the peninsula.
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So imagine the little 200-gram rat attached at the
extremity
of this 200-kilo robot, but the rat does not feel the robot.
If we go to the dictionary, it says, "It's the lower
extremity
of a leg that is in direct contact with the ground in standing or walking" That's the traditional definition.
And they happen, on average, to have a certain unique physiology: legs that are very long and very thin at their extremity, and this is because they have their ancestry at very low latitude in a very hot and dry climate, and an evolutionary adaptation to that is limbs that are very long and very thin at the
extremity
for cooling purposes.
It's the same reason that a radiator has long coils, to increase surface area compared to volume to let heat out, and because the leg is like a pendulum, the longer and thinner it is at the extremity, the more energy-efficient it is to swing.
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