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  • 1Bored cylindrical lock — A bored cylindrical lock is one in which two holes are bored, perpendicular to one another, into the door. A large hole is bored into the door face and a smaller crossbore hole is bored into the door edge, as opposed to a mortise lock prep cut… …

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  • 2round — I. a. 1. Circular. 2. Spherical, globular, orbicular, rotund, orbed. 3. Cylindrical. 4. Full, complete, entire, unbroken, whole. 5. Large, great, considerable. 6. Plump, chubby, corpulent, stout, full, swelling. 7. Smooth, contin …

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  • 3VRLA battery — A valve regulated (sealed) lead–acid battery A VRLA battery (valve regulated lead–acid battery) is a type of low maintenance lead–acid rechargeable battery. Because of their construction, VRLA batteries do not require regular addition of water to …

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  • 4precisely — pre|cise|ly W3S2 [prıˈsaısli] adv 1.) exactly and correctly = ↑exactly ▪ Temperature can be measured precisely. ▪ He arrived at precisely 4 o clock. precisely what/how/where etc ▪ It is difficult to know precisely how much impact the changes will …

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  • 5steel — steellike, adj. /steel/, n. 1. any of various modified forms of iron, artificially produced, having a carbon content less than that of pig iron and more than that of wrought iron, and having qualities of hardness, elasticity, and strength varying …

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  • 6History of primitive and non-Western trumpets — The chromatic trumpet of Western tradition is a fairly recent invention, but primitive trumpets of one form or another have been in existence for millennia; some of the predecessors of the modern instrument are now known to date back to the… …

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  • 7arts, East Asian — Introduction       music and visual and performing arts of China, Korea, and Japan. The literatures of these countries are covered in the articles Chinese literature, Korean literature, and Japanese literature.       Some studies of East Asia… …

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  • 8Sundial — A sundial is a device that measures time by the position of the Sun. In common designs such as the horizontal sundial, the sun casts a shadow from its style (a thin rod or a sharp, straight edge) onto a flat surface marked with lines indicating… …

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  • 9HSL and HSV — Fig. 1. HSL (a–d) and HSV (e–h). Above (a, e): cut away 3D models of each. Below: two dimensional plots showing two of a model’s three parameters at once, holding the other constant: cylindrical shells (b, f) of constant saturation, in this case… …

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  • 10fluid mechanics — an applied science dealing with the basic principles of gaseous and liquid matter. Cf. fluid dynamics. [1940 45] * * * Study of the effects of forces and energy on liquids and gases. One branch of the field, hydrostatics, deals with fluids at… …

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