| A digital instrument shows a measurement directly as a number, such as the LED display on a digital watch; compare with Analog.
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| A long wall or embankment built to prevent flooding.
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| A building in a state of neglect, disrepair, decay, ruin, or deterioration through neglect or misuse.
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| In lacquer, the volatile portion of vehicle not capable by itself of dissolving nitrocellulose.
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| See Thinners.
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| Lumber with a nominal thickness of from 2 inches up to but not including 5 inches and a nominal width of 2 inches or more; includes joists, planks, rafters, studs, and small timbers; see also Dimension Stock.
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| The diameter of a pipe divided by the wall thickness; each pipe can have two dimension ratios depending on whether the outside or inside diameter is used; in practice, the outside diameter is used if the standards requirement and manufacturing control are based on this diameter; the inside diameter is used when this measurement is the controlling one.
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| Hardwood stock processed to a point where the maximum waste remains at the dimension mill and the maximum utility is delivered to the user; stock of specified thickness, width, and length; according to specifications, it may be solid or glued up, rough or surfaced, semifabricated or completely fabricated; commonly known as Hardwood Dimension Lumber.
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| 1. A measurable extent of any kind, such as width, length, height, or volume. 2. Dimension Lumber, See Dimension Stock.
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| 1. The ability of a fabric to retain its dimensions in service and wet cleaning. 2. The ability of any material to maintain its essential dimensions in the conditions in which it is used.
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| Measures taken to prevent or rce warping, swelling. or shrinking.
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| In practice, the first dimension of a CMU represents the thickness, the second, height; and the third, length.
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| Formed by chemical combination of two similar molecules.
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| To make or appear less or smaller.
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| An increase in expenditure, investment, or taxation, beyond a certain point, ceases to produce a proportionate yield.
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| The amount by which the market value of property is rced by any cause.
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| A switch which controls the brightness of a light.
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| The depression in the surface of gypsum board caused by a hammer as the nail head is set slightly below the surface or plane of the gypsum board to permit concealment with joint compound.
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| A semiconductor allowing the flow of current in one direction only and having two terminals.
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| A granular, crystalline igneous rock commonly of acid plagioclase and hornblende, pyroxene, or biotite.
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| Process of finishing an article by immersing it in finishing material.
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| The lowest portion of the inside top surface of the channel through a plumbing trap; compare with Weir of a Trap.
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| Solvent made by destructive distillation of pine stumps; is stronger than turpentine.
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| Electrical cable that is suitable for burial directly in the earth without being in a conduit.
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| Electric conduit suitable for burial in exterior applications with an outer surface that resists moisture, fungus, and corrosion.
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| Costs which may readily be attached or directly related to the unit of production.
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| An electric current, of constant voltage, flowing in one direction only.
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| A fan that is positively connected in line to a motor to operate at the same speed.
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| Questions directed to a friendly witness.
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| Interior air cooled by directly passing over an evaporator in which refrigerant is expanding from a fixed reference point.
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