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Definition: TANGENT SCREW |
TANGENT SCREW1. (Mach.), an endless screw; a worm. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Mining | A very fine, slow-motion screw giving a tangential movement for making the final setting to a precision surveying instrument (such as for completing the alignment of sight on a theodolite or transit by gentle rotation ofthe reading circle about its axis). CF:Stebinger drum. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: TANGENT SCREW |
| English words defined with "TANGENT SCREW": Worm wheel. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "TANGENT SCREW"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Hungarian | rögzítőcsavar, mikrométercsavar, finombeállító csavar, csiga (auger, pulley, snail), állítócsavar. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | angenttay ewscray.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-g-n-n-r-s-t-t-w" | |
-3 letters: entrances, newsagent, renascent, tangences. | |
-4 letters: canteens, centares, centners, entrance, entrants, entreats, estrange, grantees, greatens, greatest, negaters, ratteens, reagents, reascent, reenacts, sarcenet, sergeant, setenant, tangence, tangents, tentages, transect, twangers. | |
-5 letters: argents, canners, canteen, canters, careens, carnets, caserne, casette, centare, centers, centner, centres, cerates, cetanes, creates, crenate, earnest, eastern, ecartes, encages, enrages, ensnare, entrant, entreat, ergates, estreat, gannets, garnets, gerents, gestate, getters, gnawers, grantee, greaten, nascent, natters, nearest, neatens, neatest, nectars, negater, negates, netters, ratteen, rattens, reagent, recanes, recants, reenact, regents, regnant, rennase, rennets, restage, restate, retaste, scanner, scanter, scatter, strange, swatter, sweater, tangent, tanners, tannest, tanrecs, targets, tenaces, tenants, tenners, tenrecs, tentage, tenters, tercets, ternate, trances, twanger, wannest, wanters, weaners, western, wetters. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 41 4E 47 45 4E 54 53 43 52 45 57 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01000001 01001110 01000111 01000101 01001110 01010100 00100000 01010011 01000011 01010010 01000101 01010111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T A N G E N T   S C R E W |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0041 004E 0047 0045 004E 0054 0053 0043 0052 0045 0057 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5435484139485425337523957 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Translations: Modern 4. Anagrams | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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