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  2. Matchboard - Wikipedia

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    Matchboarding can be used both internally and externally, and can be layered in many different styles including: square edge, feather edge, ship lap and tongue and groove. [2] [3] Matchboard was most popular in the late Victorian period, when woodworking machinery had developed that could cut the edge joints quickly and cheaply.

  3. Tongue and groove - Wikipedia

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    Tongue and groove joints allow two flat pieces to be joined strongly together to make a single flat surface. Before plywood became common, tongue and groove boards were also used for sheathing buildings and to construct concrete formwork. A strong joint, the tongue and groove joint is widely used for re-entrant angles

  4. Sulcalization - Wikipedia

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    Sulcalization (from Latin: sulcus 'groove'), also called internal rounding, in phonetics, is the pronunciation of a sound, typically a sibilant consonant, such as English /s/ and /z/, with a deep groove running along the back of the tongue that focuses the airstream on the teeth, producing a more intense sound. This is accomplished by raising ...

  5. Try square - Wikipedia

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    Using a try square to mark lines perpendicular to the edge. Using a try square to check if the full length of a board is square. The stock is usually held against the edge of the workpiece and either side of the tongue is then used as a straight edge for making a mark, or as a reference to check the accuracy of an angle.

  6. Atterberg limits - Wikipedia

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    The plasticity index is the size of the range of water contents where the soil exhibits plastic properties. The PI is the difference between the liquid and plastic limits (PI = LL-PL). Soils with a high PI tend to be clay, those with a lower PI tend to be silt, and those with a PI of 0 (non-plastic) tend to have little or no silt or clay.

  7. Scarf joint - Wikipedia

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    A plain scarf joint A nibbed scarf joint A keyed, nibbed scarf, reinforced with fish plates and through bolts The scarf joint used on the beams above the post is known by its French name, trait de jupiter, or bolt-o-lightning joint.

  8. Topographic wetness index - Wikipedia

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    The topographic wetness index (TWI), also known as the compound topographic index (CTI), is a steady state wetness index. It is commonly used to quantify topographic control on hydrological processes. [1] The index is a function of both the slope and the upstream contributing area per unit width orthogonal to the flow direction.

  9. Channellock - Wikipedia

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    In 1933, Chief Engineer Howard Manning developed the tongue-and-groove, slip-joint pliers for which the company is known. In 1934, a patent for this design [5] was granted, and in 1949, a trademark for the name "Channellock" was granted, with a first-use date of May 1, 1932. [6]