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hand-off

n
(Rugby) the act of warding off an opposing player with the open hand
vb
(Rugby) (tr, adverb) to ward off (an opponent) using a hand-off
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hand′-off`

or hand′off`,



n.
a. an offensive play in football in which a player, usu. a back, hands the ball to a teammate.
b. the ball itself during the execution of such a transfer.
[1895–1900]
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hand-off

Method used by a player carrying the ball to push away a tackling opponent with the palm of his hand.
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They cover SAP Build from initial project creation to hand-off of the prototype to development for full implementation, including an overview of prototyping; accessing the SAP Build environment; its functionality, navigation, learning, and other topics; creating a new project; managing pages and files; working with the user interface editor; user interface controls and properties; working with the canvas and data; finalizing the prototype; tracking feedback with studies; handing off the final prototype to SAP Web IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for transformation into a production-ready application; and future capabilities, teaching design, and getting involved in the future development and success of the SAP Build application.
Let [x.sup.k] represent the position of the kth hand-off on the tree-shaped picking system in Figure 1(b); when xk e [0, l], [x.sup.k] [member of] [l.
LLCD also demonstrated the ability to "hand-off" the laser connection from one ground station to another, just as a cellphone does a hand-off from one cell tower to another.
For the Hand-off method, there was larger intra cast volume variability at the posterior region compared to the anterior region (Table 4).
The Results: Interns going off duty (postcall) overestimated the effectiveness of their hand-off communication, since the researchers found that sixty percent of the time the most important piece of patient information was not conveyed to the intern coming on duty (on-call), even though the postcall intern thought it had been communicated.
A tracking data hand-off was successfully completed by the Space Tracking and Surveillance System demonstration satellite built by Northrop Grumman and Raytheon.
"But the main problem was the lack of a hand-off because it's one of the main strengths of my game and in a position like centre it's vital.
But Roberts - who is a trainee doctor in Cardiff - has admitted the problem plagued him throughout last season and while it wasn't quite a literal case of playing with one hand tied behind his back, he was without his trademark hammer-blow hand-off.
Due to the mobility of WMNs, an MC is able to move out of its current MR's coverage and associate with a new MR with the minimum hand-off time to reduce packet loss as much as possible, because packet loss can degrade the performance of current applications significantly.
The basic generic movement is simply for 01 to dribble toward either wing player (03 on the left and 02 on the right), with that player V-cutting before then scraping off o[pounds sterling] the outside shoulder of 01 to receive the basketball with 01's hand-off.
While the goals had previously addressed such "hot topics" of communication failure as abbreviation use and report of critical laboratory values, JCAHO most recently turned its attention to hand-off communication (Wilson, 2007, see page 201).