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  2. Nail (fastener) - Wikipedia

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    Nails are made in a great variety of forms for specialized purposes. The most common is a wire nail. [2] Other types of nails include pins, tacks, brads, spikes, and cleats. Nails are typically driven into the workpiece by a hammer or nail gun. A nail holds materials together by friction in the axial direction and shear strength

  3. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (government and legislation)

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    Guidelines for government departments, agencies, and offices [ edit ] Use official names in article titles ( United States Department of the Treasury instead of Treasury Department ), unless an agency is almost always known by an acronym or different title ( DARPA ).

  4. Screw - Wikipedia

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    A lathe of 1871, equipped with leadscrew and change gears for single-point screw-cutting A Brown & Sharpe single-spindle screw machine. Fasteners had become widespread involving concepts such as dowels and pins, wedging, mortises and tenons, dovetails, nailing (with or without clenching the nail ends), forge welding, and many kinds of binding with cord made of leather or fiber, using many ...

  5. Government contractor - Wikipedia

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    A government contractor is a company (privately owned, publicly traded or a state-owned enterprise) – either for profit or non-profit – that produces goods or services under contract for the government. [1]

  6. Casing - Wikipedia

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    Casing may refer to an enclosing shell, tube, or surrounding material. It may also refer to: Cartridge (firearms), shell enclosing the explosive propellant in ammunition; Casing (borehole), metal tube used during the drilling of a well; Casing (molding), decorative molding surrounding door or window openings

  7. Commercial and Government Entity code - Wikipedia

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    The Commercial and Government Entity Code, or CAGE Code, is a unique identifier assigned to suppliers to various government or defense agencies, as well as to government agencies themselves and various organizations. CAGE codes provide a standardized method of identifying a given facility at a specific location.

  8. Casing (borehole) - Wikipedia

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    Casing Diameters of a Borehole Casing Diagram premium gas tight connections on a casing string. Casing is a large diameter pipe that is assembled and inserted into a recently drilled section of a borehole. Similar to the bones of a spine protecting the spinal cord, casing is set inside the drilled borehole to protect and support the wellstream.

  9. Casing hanger - Wikipedia

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    Casing hangers must be designed to take the full weight of the casing, and provide a seal between the casing hanger and the spool. Casing Hangers may also be suspended within the wellhead by means of radial distortion of the wellhead bore e.g. the "Pos-Grip" method. This is installed to support the individual casing strings in the well.