8 They're also huge. The Great Lakes touch Canada, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Combined, the length of all five shorelines is about 44 percent of the Earth's circumference.
1 Spindle (textiles) , a device to spin fibers into thread. 2  Spindle (tool) , is the main rotating part of a machine tool, woodworking machine, etc. 3  Segmented spindle, a spindle consisting of discrete elements that can be assembled and disassembled on the fly.
In cell biology, the spindle fibers are the structure that separates the chromosomes into the daughter cells during cell division. It is part of the cytoskeleton in eukaryotic â¦ cells. Depending on the type of cell division, it is also referred to as the meiotic spindle during mitosis and the meiotic spindle during meiosis.