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  • Thumbnail for Stockless anchor
    A stockless anchor (or "patent anchor") is a streamlined derivation of the traditional Admiralty anchor used aboard large ships. Patented in England in...
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    the anchor, shaped vaguely like a ship's anchor, which swings back and forth on a pivot just above the escape wheel. On the two arms of the anchor are...
    24 KB (3,009 words) - 11:27, 4 September 2024
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    including one-armed mooring anchors. The most successful of these patent anchors, the Trotman Anchor, introduced a pivot at the centre of the crown where...
    57 KB (7,898 words) - 16:00, 28 September 2024
  • a great departure from the form of previous anchors. The arms were formed in one piece, and were pivoted at the crown on a bolt passing through the forked...
    14 KB (2,031 words) - 14:41, 26 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Inverted pendulum
    An inverted pendulum is a pendulum that has its center of mass above its pivot point. It is unstable and falls over without additional help. It can be...
    28 KB (4,455 words) - 20:11, 11 September 2024
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    in enamel (discoloration, erosion, Hutchinson's teeth), and anchoring for a bridge. Pivot teeth without a ferrule are indicated when there is no tendency...
    11 KB (1,484 words) - 21:24, 25 July 2024
  • automatic couplers by introducing a deformation tube that sits behind the pivot anchor. It improved energy absorption and helped engineers to create more space...
    16 KB (1,747 words) - 01:40, 19 September 2024
  • Spotify (redirect from Anchor.fm)
    May 2018). "Where will Spotify's censorship end?". The Times. "Spotify Pivots on Global Cultures Initiative, Alarming Music Industry". Rolling Stone....
    241 KB (19,509 words) - 19:28, 11 October 2024
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    Guy-wire (redirect from Guy anchor)
    used as guy anchors for utility poles since they are quick to install with a truck mounted hydraulic powered auger drive. A rod with a pivoted blade on the...
    12 KB (1,629 words) - 14:27, 3 October 2024
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    tapered, being widened at their pivot for anchoring and narrow at their tip. Anchor windlass A pawl is used in an anchor windlass to prevent a free-spooling...
    2 KB (284 words) - 00:01, 20 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for HLN (TV network)
    longest-serving news anchor, with a 28-year career with CNN2/Headline News that lasted until his retirement on July 30, 2010) and Denise LeClair anchored the channel's...
    64 KB (7,229 words) - 21:26, 11 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pendulum
    A pendulum is a device made of a weight suspended from a pivot so that it can swing freely. When a pendulum is displaced sideways from its resting, equilibrium...
    123 KB (14,566 words) - 15:59, 28 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jacob Soboroff
    2015, he was the host of YouTube Nation and a co-host of TakePart Live on Pivot TV. He was also a founding host and producer of HuffPost Live, the live...
    8 KB (668 words) - 03:03, 12 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Centreboard
    A centreboard or centerboard (US) is a retractable hull appendage which pivots out of a slot in the hull of a sailboat, known as a centreboard trunk (UK)...
    6 KB (814 words) - 23:33, 26 August 2024
  • more analysis- or opinion-oriented news programming. During the network's pivot back to hard news in 2015, the name, then-MSNBC Live, returned during daytime...
    27 KB (2,460 words) - 20:30, 18 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Escapement
    an hour hand). The anchor consists of an escape wheel with pointed, backward slanted teeth, and an "anchor"-shaped piece pivoted above it which rocks...
    69 KB (8,697 words) - 07:35, 28 August 2024
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    claw used to catch or hold something. A ship's anchor is a type of grapple, especially the "grapnel" anchor. A throwing grapple (or "grappling hook") is...
    3 KB (409 words) - 07:08, 21 November 2023
  • Shops outparcel location as a part of a nationwide restructuring effort to pivot towards off-mall operations better in line with their renewed store placement...
    4 KB (370 words) - 06:55, 12 September 2024
  • rudder pivots. ruffle A serrated iron ring attached to the barrel of the anchor winch and to which the pawl is applied to prevent backruns of the anchor chain...
    252 KB (31,686 words) - 17:30, 11 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pallet fork
    shaped like a 'T' or an anchor, which gives this escapement its alternative name of anchor escapement. The lever is pivoted in the center; in operation...
    4 KB (427 words) - 07:02, 29 August 2022
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