That makes it possible to transfer energy from the surface wave to the interfacial wave by placing a patch of wavy ripples on the sea floor in front of the object that have a wavelength that's tuned just right.
Imagine checking into an urgent care facility at which point the receptionist places a patch on you that takes your vitals and wirelessly transmits them to a secure, centralized repository where the doctor can review before he sees you (already done by nurse before visit).
It is also a magical, Watteauvian place, where a patch of blue sky descends to caress the hem of a dress.
For decades, we've witnessed fictionalized versions of ourselves living out life lulled into the notion that any place with a patch of lawn and a scooter in the driveway comes complete with a guarantee of shininess and safety.
What followed was a drama of redemptive, liberating settlement on one side and catastrophic dispossession on the other — all of it taking place on a patch of desert land too small for easy division and too imbued with historical and holy claims for rational negotiation.
A place where a patch of the sky was visible through the leaves, where a little girl let her bare leg dangle too far down.
Tuesday, President Bush chided lawmakers for failing to place a temporary "patch" on the alternative minimum tax (AMT), a fix he says would keep it from ensnaring millions of additional middle-class taxpayers.
In the early 1990s, the military was petrified that encryption technologies would leave them blind to the growing use of mobile and digital communications, so they hatched a plan to ban to place a hardware patch that gave the NSA backdoor wiretap access, the so-called "Clipper Chip".
Intraoperatively, the surgeons considered whether to place a synthetic patch in place of the missing diaphragm.
To secure the capsule in place, a round patch of cloth (≈1 cm diameter) with a hole in the middle that was slightly smaller than the capsule (to allow access to the capsule) was placed over the capsule and affixed to the skin with glue.
