plural of swein

A form of helical scan in which the tape is wrapped around the head drum for a full 360 degrees (the tape looking like the lowercase Greek letter alpha). There is only one head which writes a compl...

To tag a substance (especially a biological substance) with a radioactive tracer

(historical) A member of a Balto-Finnic people who lived between the 12th to 16th centuries in the area around the town of Wenden (now Cēsis) in present-day north-central Latvia.