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Home Dictionary Name: slideSlide
To move along the surface of any body by slipping or without walking or rolling to slip to glide as snow slides down the mountains side...
Slide rule
a thin flat calculating device consisting of a fixed outer piece and a movable middle piece Both pieces are graduated in such a way as by a logarithmic scale that multiplication division and other mathematical functions of an input variable may be rapidly determined by movement of the middle pieces to a location on one scale corresponding to the input value and reading off the result on another scale A movable window with a hairline assists in alignment of the scales This device has been largely superseded by the electronic calculator which has a greater precision than the slide rule Also called colloquially slipstick...
Sliding
That slides or slips gliding moving smoothly...
Sliding
Sliding on ice or snow. See SNOW....
D valve
A kind of slide valve See Slide valve under Slide...
Cam
A turning or sliding piece which by the shape of its periphery or face or a groove in its surface imparts variable or intermittent motion to or receives such motion from a rod lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it...
Outslide
To slide outward onward or forward to advance by sliding...
Bissell truck
A truck for railroad rolling stock consisting of two ordinary axle boxes sliding in guides attached to a triangular frame called also pony truck...
Cathetometer
An instrument for the accurate measurement of small differences of height esp of the differences in the height of the upper surfaces of two columns of mercury or other fluid or of the same column at different times It consists of a telescopic leveling apparatus d which slides up or down a perpendicular metallic standard very finely graduated bb The telescope is raised or depressed in order to sight the objects or surfaces and the differences in vertical height are thus shown on the graduated standard...
Centerboard
A retractable or sliding keel used on sailboats formed of a broad board or slab of wood or metal which may be raised into a water tight case amidships when in shallow water or may be lowered to increase the area of lateral resistance and prevent drifting to leeward when the vessel is beating to windward It is used in vessels of all sizes along the coast of the United States...
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