Fin
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label: زعانف @ar
subject: Category:Rocketry
subject: Category:Animal anatomy
subject: Category:Watercraft components
hypernym: Component
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caption: Spinosaurus may have used its dorsal fin as a courtship display.
caption: Ship stabilising fins reduce roll.
caption: In some Asian countries shark fins are a culinary delicacy.
caption: In recent years, car fins have evolved into highly functional spoilers and wings.
caption: Cavitation damage is evident on this propeller.
caption: Compressor fins
caption: Cetaceans get thrust moving horizontal tail fins up and down.
caption: Ailerons control roll.
caption: Fish get thrust moving vertical tail fins from side to side.
caption: Stingrays get thrust from large pectoral fins.
caption: The dorsal fin of a white shark contain dermal fibers that work "like riggings that stabilize a ship's mast", and stiffen dynamically as the shark swims faster to control roll and yaw.
caption: During courtship, the female cichlid, Pelvicachromis taeniatus, displays her visually arresting purple pelvic fin.
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caption: A rudder corrects yaw.
caption: Flying fish use enlarged pectoral fins to glide above the surface of the water.
caption: Oil heaters convect with fins.
caption: Motorbikes use fins to cool the engine.
caption: Ship propeller
caption: A fin keel limits roll and sideways drift.
caption: Fletching on an arrow
caption: The rudder controls yaw.
caption: Surfboard fins allow surfers to maneuver their boards.
caption: Conventional "planar" fins on a RIM-7 Sea Sparrow missile
caption: Frog fish use their pectoral and pelvic fins to walk along the ocean bottom.
caption: Airplane propeller
caption: Swim fins add thrust to the kicks of a human swimmer.
caption: Fish, boats and airplanes need control of three degrees of rotational freedom.
caption: Sailfish raise their dorsal fin to cool down or to herd schooling fish.
caption: Elevators control pitch.
caption: Asymmetric stabilizing fins impart spin to this Soviet artillery rocket
caption: Many reef fish have pectoral and pelvic fins optimised for flattened bodies.
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image: Aileron roll.gif
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image: Spinosaurus 2020 reconstruction.jpg
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