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BACK BALANCE

Specialty Definition: BACK BALANCE

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Mining

A. A type of self-acting incline in a mine. A balance car is attached to one end of a rope, and a carriage for the mine car is attached to the other end. A loaded car is run on the carriage and is lowered to the foot of the incline, raising the balance car. The balance car in its descent raises the carriage when the carriage is loaded only with an empty car b. The means of maintaining tension on a rope transmission or haulage system, consisting of the tension carriage, attached weight, andsupporting structure. (references)

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

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Anagrams: BACK BALANCE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-b-b-c-c-e-k-l-n"

-3 letters: bankable, calcanea.

-4 letters: balance, blacken, cabbala, kabbala.

-5 letters: alkane, anlace, baccae, cabala, cabana, cackle, caecal, cancel, kabala.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BACK BALANCE


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

42 41 43 4B      42 41 4C 41 4E 43 45

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

    

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

01000010 01000001 01000011 01001011 00100000 01000010 01000001 01001100 01000001 01001110 01000011 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#65 &#67 &#75 &#32 &#66 &#65 &#76 &#65 &#78 &#67 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0041 0043 004B      0042 0041 004C 0041 004E 0043 0045

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

36353745236354635483739

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