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FRICTION HEAD

Specialty Definition: FRICTION HEAD

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Energy

The energy lost from the movement of a fluid in a conduit (pipe) due to the disturbances created by the contact of the moving fluid with the surfaces of the conduit, or the additional pressure that a pump must provide to overcome the resistance to fluid flow created by or in a conduit. (references)

Hydrologic

The decrease in total head caused by friction. (references)

Mining

A. That part of the hydraulic-feed yoke on a diamond drill containing the bearings by means of which the thrust of the hydraulic-feed pistons is transmitted to the drive rod in the drill swivel head. Syn:cage; collar b. The additional pressure that the pump must develop to overcome the frictional resistance offered by the pipe, by bends or turns in the pipeline, by changes in the pipe diameter, by valves, and by couplings c. The pressure required to overcome the friction created by the flow of a confined liquid, such as the flow of a drill fluid through drill rod. (references)

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

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Crosswords: FRICTION HEAD

Specialty definitions using "FRICTION HEAD": manometric delivery headrated net headtotal dynamic head, total head. (references)

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Anagrams: FRICTION HEAD

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-f-h-i-i-n-o-r-t"

-2 letters: achondrite, antiheroic, fornicated, fractioned.

-3 letters: anchorite, antechoir, archfiend, carnified, charioted, chieftain, chondrite, direction, fornicate, indicator, infarcted, infracted, introfied, redaction, threadfin, threnodic, trichinae.

-4 letters: acridine, actinide, actinoid, anchored, anchoret, anoretic, anorthic, antherid, antihero, arointed, artifice, cartoned, catenoid, centroid, ceratoid, chordate, codifier, confider, creation, ctenidia, daintier, diatonic, dicentra, doctrine, echinoid, ethician, factored, forehand, fraction, fricando.

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

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Alternative Orthography: FRICTION HEAD


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

46 52 49 43 54 49 4F 4E      48 45 41 44

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

    

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

01000110 01010010 01001001 01000011 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110 00100000 01001000 01000101 01000001 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#82 &#73 &#67 &#84 &#73 &#79 &#78 &#32 &#72 &#69 &#65 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0052 0049 0043 0054 0049 004F 004E      0048 0045 0041 0044

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

4052433754434948242393538

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