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Canard

Canard is a French word for a duck, and is often used in English to refer to a deliberately false story.

"Canard" may also refer to:

Canard (aeronautics), flight control surfaces mounted at the front of an aircraft or an aircraft bearing such surfaces
Le Canard enchaîné, a satirical French newspaper, based on the French usage of canard to mean a newspaper.
Canard (dynamical systems) is a phenomenon in some slow-fast dynamical systems referring to high sensitivity of a periodic orbit to a parameter [http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Canards]. Canards are used in some models of neuronal spiking.
Canard, Nova Scotia a community in Kings County

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Translation

The word "Canard" occurs as such in the following languages: English, Dutch.

Translation(s) in other languages: Czech: Kachna (rozcestník), German: Ente, French: Canard (homonymie), Slovenian: Kanard, Japanese: カナード, Ripuarian: Ent (Watt ėßß datt?).


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