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Pressure wires

Wires leading from various points of an electric system to a central station where a voltmeter indicates the potential of the system at those points...


Barbed-wire

Barbed-wire. By the (English) Barbed Wire Act,1893 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 32), s. 2, 'barbed wire' means any wire with spikes or jagged projections; and the expression 'nuisance to a highway,' as applied to it, means barbed wire which may probably be injurious to persons or animals lawfully using such highway. A local authority can require the removal of barbed wire adjoining a highway when it thus constitutes a nuisance; but on lands not adjoining a highway a person is in general under no liability for the use of such wire....


Electrical resistance wires

Electrical resistance wires, the expression 'electrical resistance wires' in Item 73(23) has to be read along with the 'Nichrome' which precedes that expression and, it can only mean electrical wires having characteristics similar to those of Nichrome, namely, high resistivity, keeping in view the low resistivity of Tungsten wire it cannot be regarded as electrical resistance wire falling under Item 73(23), Union of India v. Kalpana Industries Ltd., 1995 Supp (6) SCC 712 (714). [Customs Tariff Act, 1934, Sch. I, Item 73(23)]...


hot wire

to start a car by using a wire instead of a key as when stealing the car the wire is connected to points in the ignition circuit that bypass the key...


Office wire

Copper wire with a strong but light insulation used in wiring houses etc...


Barbed wire

Barbed wire, means wire with spikes or jugged projections, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 21, 4th Edn., Para 491, p. 365....


Wire rods

Wire rods, properzi rods are a species of 'wire rods', Indian Aluminium Cables Ltd. v. Union of India, AIR 1985 SC 1201 (1205): (1985) 3 SCC 284: (1985)Supp 1 SCR 731. [Central Excise and Sales Act (1 of 1944), Sch. I, item 27(a)(ii)]...


Wires, Overhead

Wires, Overhead. For power to urban authority to make bye-laws for prevention of danger or obstruction from overhead telegraphic wires: see the Public Health and Local Government Acts. As to the power of the Post Office to place telegraph lines across private property or property belonging to public undertakings, etc., see the (English) Telegraph Acts (41 & 42 Vict. c. 76; 26 & 27 Vict. c. 112; and 6 & 7 Geo. 5, c. 40), and special or local Acts....


osmotic pressure

The pressure which a solution of a substance in a liquid exerts on a semipermeable membrane through which the solvent can diffuse but the dissolved substance the solute cannot diffuse when separated across the membrane from the pure solvent In general the osmotic pressure will depend almost proportionally up to certain concentrations upon the molal concentration of the solute...


High pressure

High pressure, means such pressure as the State Government may, from time to time, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify in terms of kilograms per square centimeter. [The Gujarat Gas (Regulation of Transmission Supply and Distribution) Act, 2001, s. 2(i).]...


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