Tilting
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Tilting may refer to:
- Tilt (camera)Tilt (camera)Tilting is a cinematographic technique in which the camera is stationary and rotates in a vertical plane . A rotation in a horizontal plane is known as panning...
, a cinematographic technique - Tilting trainTilting trainA tilting train is a train that has a mechanism enabling increased speed on regular rail tracks. As a train rounds a curve at speed, objects inside the train experience centrifugal force. This can cause packages to slide about or seated passengers to feel squashed by the outboard armrest due to...
, a train with a mechanism enabling increased speed on regular railroad tracks - Tilting, Newfoundland and LabradorTilting, Newfoundland and LabradorTilting is a town on the eastern end of Fogo Island off the northeast coast of Newfoundland. The community has been designated as a National Cultural Landscape District of Canada in 2005 by Parks Canada, and was also designated as a Registered Heritage District by the Heritage Foundation of...
, a town on Fogo Island - Tilting, a type of joustingJoustingJousting is a martial game or hastilude between two knights mounted on horses and using lances, often as part of a tournament.Jousting emerged in the High Middle Ages based on the military use of the lance by heavy cavalry. The first camels tournament was staged in 1066, but jousting itself did not...
- Tilting at windmillsTilting at windmillsTilting at windmills is an English idiom which means attacking imaginary enemies, or fighting unwinnable or futile battles. The word “tilt”, in this context, comes from jousting....
, an English idiom - Tilting theoryTilting theoryIn algebra, tilting theory uses a tilting module T over an algebra A to construct tilting functors relating modules over A to modules over the tilted algebra EndA of endomorphisms of T....
, an algebra theory