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| Domain | Definition |
Occupations | Assembles, installs, and adjusts variety of electromechanical units, such as feed drives, control key assemblies, and printing units, on new and rebuilt punched card office machines according to blueprints and written specifications, using handtools, assembly fixtures, and test devices: Reads blueprints to determine position of unit and component parts. Positions components in assembly fixture. Assembles unit and mounts it on office machine frame, using screwdrivers and wrenches. Starts machine and adjusts unit for specified clearances and time cycles, using fixed gauges, test lights, and handtools. Inspects machine to verify that optional equipment changes have been made according to customer order. May operate electric hoist to position unit on office machine frame. (references) |
| Assembles and adjusts small arms parts to specifications and tests moving parts to detect malfunctions: Verifies dimensions of parts, using gauges. Screws, pins, and bolts parts together to assemble weapon, using handtools and power tools. Tests action of weapon to detect malfunctions. Disassembles weapon and files, scrapes, and reams parts to fit, using emery cloth, hand files, reamers, and bench grinder. May test-fire weapon, using dummy ammunition. (references) | |
| Assembles garments, such as skirts, blouses, and jackets, for final inspection: Ties bows, draws belts through belt loops, closes slide fasteners, and buttons, snaps, or buckles garment openings. Trims long ends of thread or loose threads from garments, using scissors. Attaches specified tag denoting size of completed ensemble. (references) | |
| Attaches nose pads and temple pieces to optical frames, using handtools: Positions parts in fixture to align screw holes. Inserts and tightens screws, using screwdriver. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | China | Because U.S. trade data attributes the full value of a product to the final assembler, Chinese value added gets overcounted. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-e-f-i-l-l-m-n-r-s-s" | |
-3 letters: amiableness, liberalness. | |
-4 letters: ballerinas, baseliners, bleariness, frambesias, lamaseries, lamebrains, limberness, marbleises, miserables. | |
-5 letters: alienable, amarelles, amberinas, amebiases, assembler, balefires, ballerina, balminess, baseliner, baselines, blameless, brainless, briefless, briefness, earliness, filenames, fireballs, firebases, flaneries, fleabanes, frailness, frambesia, frameable, inferable, inflamers, lamebrain, learnable, linerless, marbleise, messaline, miserable, mislabels, mislearns, rainfalls, reliables, resalable, sensibler, sensillae. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 49 4E 41 4C 41 53 53 45 4D 42 4C 45 52 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01001001 01001110 01000001 01001100 00100000 01000001 01010011 01010011 01000101 01001101 01000010 01001100 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F I N A L   A S S E M B L E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0049 004E 0041 004C 0041 0053 0053 0045 004D 0042 004C 0045 0052 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)40434835462355353394736463952 |
| 1. Quotations: Non-fiction 2. Anagrams 3. Orthography 4. Bibliography |
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