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GLAND BOX

Specialty Definition: GLAND BOX

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Food & Agriculture

A device designed to prevent leakage around a moving part that passes through a hole in a vessel or in a compartment containing water, steam, or oil. Source: European Union. (references)

Mechanical Engineering

A rod seal consisting of a cylindrical box through the middle of which the rod passes. The rest of the space is filled with packing which is compressed by a gland or ring. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Modern Translation: GLAND BOX

Language Translations for "GLAND BOX"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

stempelstangspakdaase (stuffing box, stuffing-box), pakdåse (annulus seal, gland, packer, packing, stuffing box, valve gland). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

pakkingsbus (stuffing box, stuffing-box). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

tiivistysholkki (annulus seal, gland, packer, packing, stuffing box, valve gland). (various references)

   

French

  

presse-garniture (gland, gland follower), presse-étoupe, calfat, boîte étanche. (various references)

   

German

  

Stopfbuchse (stuffing box), Stopfbüchse (stuffing box). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

στυπιοθάλαμος (stuffing box), στυπιοθλίπτης (gland, stuffing box, stuffing-box). (various references)

   

Italian

  

pressatreccia (follower, gland, gland follower, stuffing box), premitreccia (stuffing box), premistoppa-pressatrecce (stuffing box, stuffing-box), premistoppa (stuffing box), premibaderna (stuffing box). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

andglay oxbay

   

Portuguese

  

caixa de empanque (annulus seal, gland, packer, packing, stuffing box, valve gland). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

prensaestopas (packer), caja prensaestopas (stuffing box). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: GLAND BOX

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-d-g-l-n-o-x"

-2 letters: bandog.

-3 letters: along, bland, blond, bogan, dobla, donga, gland, goban, gonad, logan, nodal.

-4 letters: agon, axon, bald, band, bang, bola, bold, bond, bong, dago, dang, dona, dong, gaol, glad, glob, goad, goal, gold, land, lang, load, loan, long.

-5 letters: abo, ado, ago, alb, and, bad, bag, bal, ban, boa, bod, bog, box, dab, dag.

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

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INDEX

1. Translations: Modern
2. Anagrams
3. Bibliography


  

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