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What is a vane?

What is a vane? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (countable) A weather vane.
  2. Any of several usually relatively thin, rigid, flat, or sometimes curved surfaces radially mounted along an axis, as a blade in a turbine or a sail on a windmill, that is turned by or used to turn a fluid.
  3. (ornithology) The flattened, web-like part of a feather, consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft.
  4. One of the metal guidance or stabilizing fins attached to the tail of a bomb or other missile.
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The vane on one side of the feather's spine was wider than the one on the other.
They successfully measured the bond energy and bond number of a clay-freshwater system using a vane shear apparatus.
I will accept Caidin's claim if he will make one paper vane move by psychokinetic power while it is sealed in a Bell jar.
On camera she seems angular and frosty, a wintry weather vane, but in real life much softer.
In the Dines tube anemograph, the wind pressure acts upon the opening of a tube arranged as a vane to face in the direction of the wind.
Spring growth was budding on the shrubs around the front porch, the weather vane atop one of the turrets facing out to the lake.

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