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  2. Engineering drawing abbreviations and symbols - Wikipedia

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    Technical standards exist to provide glossaries of abbreviations, acronyms, and symbols that may be found on engineering drawings. Many corporations have such standards, which define some terms and symbols specific to them; on the national and international level, ASME standard Y14.38 [ 1 ] is one of the standards.

  3. Engineering drawing - Wikipedia

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    An engineering drawing is a type of technical drawing ... (such as an object's length or width, or hole center locations). ... a wide array of abbreviations and ...

  4. Glossary of engineering: A–L - Wikipedia

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    The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad range of more specialized fields of engineering, each with a more specific emphasis on particular areas of applied mathematics, applied science, and types of application. The term engineering is derived from the Latin ingenium, meaning "cleverness" and ingeniare, meaning "to contrive, devise". [196]

  5. Thousandth of an inch - Wikipedia

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    A thousandth of an inch is a derived unit of length in a system of units using inches.Equal to 1 ⁄ 1000 of an inch, a thousandth is commonly called a thou / ˈ θ aʊ / (used for both singular and plural) or, particularly in North America, a mil (plural mils).

  6. Glossary of engineering - Wikipedia

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    Glossary of aerospace engineering This page was last edited on 24 November 2024, at 07:37 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...

  7. Length - Wikipedia

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    Length is a measure of distance. In the International System of Quantities , length is a quantity with dimension distance. In most systems of measurement a base unit for length is chosen, from which all other units are derived.

  8. Glossary of aerospace engineering - Wikipedia

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    This glossary of aerospace engineering terms pertains ... (also known as the Space Vision System or by its acronym ... doubling its length to a combined total of 100 ...

  9. Unified Code for Units of Measure - Wikipedia

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    Units are represented in UCUM with reference to a set of seven base units. [5] The UCUM base units are the metre for measurement of length, the second for time, the gram for mass, the coulomb for charge, the kelvin for temperature, the candela for luminous intensity, and the radian for plane angle.