If a sailing boat's bow is pointing too high into the wind the sails backwind.
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Backwind
Synonyms for "backwind" (2 found)
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This works because tape packs with equal diameters also have equal circumferences, therefore the distance the tape on each deck travels when backwound from the edit point is the same.
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