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soliton

physics: a solitary wave; result of an equation representing such a wave
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Sightings:

A light pulse -- an ultrashort pulse -- stable and solitary
Human waves -- An intense burst (explore for "intuitive electronics")

Every freeway needs a few good antitraffic agents

Get under the hood of the Enterprise
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A poet of the recent war

What the NOAA ship observed

Becoming the dance
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Mathematical braids
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