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AGECROFT DEVICE

Specialty Definition: AGECROFT DEVICE

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Mining

A device placed in the rail track to arrest a forward runaway tram. The front axle of a descending tram traveling at normal speed depresses the catch and allows it to drop back in time for the back axle to pass over. Should the tram be traveling at excessive speed, the tail end of the catcharrests the rear axle. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: AGECROFT DEVICE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-e-e-e-f-g-i-o-r-t-v"

-3 letters: vociferated.

-4 letters: decorative, derogative, federative, vociferate.

-5 letters: accretive, categoric, cocreated, coerected, decretive, defective, forgetive, overacted.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: AGECROFT DEVICE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 47 45 43 52 4F 46 54      44 45 56 49 43 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01000111 01000101 01000011 01010010 01001111 01000110 01010100 00100000 01000100 01000101 01010110 01001001 01000011 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#71 &#69 &#67 &#82 &#79 &#70 &#84 &#32 &#68 &#69 &#86 &#73 &#67 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0047 0045 0043 0052 004F 0046 0054      0044 0045 0056 0049 0043 0045

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

35413937524940542383956433739

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