Slitting - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: slittingslit shell
Any species of Pleurotomaria a genus of beautiful pearly spiral gastropod shells having a deep slit in the outer lip Many fossil species are known and a few living ones are found in deep water in tropical seas...
slitting
a amp n from slit...
Lah-slit
Lah-slit, a mulct for offences committed by the Danes, Anc. Inst. Eng....
Chap
To cause to open in slits or chinks to split to cause the skin of to crack or become rough...
Diffraction
The deflection and decomposition of light in passing by the edges of opaque bodies or through narrow slits causing the appearance of parallel bands or fringes of prismatic colors as by the action of a grating of fine lines or bars...
diskette
a data storage medium consisting of a small plastic disk coated with a thin layer of magnetizable material on one or both sides enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit It is used in a specially designed disk drive in which the disk is rotated at high speed and which stores data on the disk by causing changes in the direction of magnetization of the magnetic layer as the disk spins and as sequential locations on the disk pass under the read write head of the drive Reading of the data occurs in the reverse process by detection of the patterns of magnetization of the disk Such disks are used to store data or programs for a microcomputer...
Earmark
A mark on the ear of sheep oxen dogs etc as by cropping or slitting...
Kerf
A notch channel or slit made in any material by cutting or sawing...
paperknife
A dull knife used to cut open the envelopes in which letters are mailed or to slit uncut pages of books...
Photodrome
An apparatus consisting of a large wheel with spokes which when turning very rapidly is illuminated by momentary flashes of light passing through slits in a rotating disk By properly timing the succession of flashes the wheel is made to appear to be motionless or to rotate more or less slowly in either direction...
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