enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. State of the art - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_the_art

    The concept of the "state of the art" originated at the beginning of the 20th century. [3] The earliest use of the term "state of the art" documented by the Oxford English Dictionary dates back to 1910, from an engineering manual by Henry Harrison Suplee (1856 – after 1943), an engineering graduate (University of Pennsylvania, 1876), titled The Gas Turbine: Progress in the Design and ...

  3. Cutting edge - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutting_edge

    Cutting edge or The Cutting Edge may refer to: The cutting surface of a blade or other cutting tool State of the art , the highest level of development, as of a device, technique, or scientific field

  4. Glossary of woodworking - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_woodworking

    Any tool with a characteristically shaped cutting edge used for carving or cutting a hard material such as wood, stone, or metal by hand, with a mallet, or with mechanical power. Chiselling involves forcing the blade or cutting edge into the material in order to cut it. chop saw chops A type of vise. circular saw clamp. Also called a cramp.

  5. Glossary of sewing terms - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_sewing_terms

    1. To hem a piece of cloth (in sewing), a garment worker folds up a cut edge, folds it up again, and then sews it down. The process of hemming thus completely encloses the cut edge in cloth, so that it cannot ravel. 2. A hem is also the edge of cloth hemmed in this manner.

  6. Sharpening - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpening

    This edge is then refined by honing until the blade is capable of cutting. The extent to which this honing takes place depends upon the intended use of the tool or implement. For some applications an edge with a certain amount of jaggedness is acceptable, or even desirable, as this creates a serrated cutting edge. In other applications the edge ...

  7. Today's Wordle Hint, Answer for #1264 on Wednesday, December ...

    www.aol.com/todays-wordle-hint-answer-1264...

    Hints and the solution for today's Wordle on Wednesday, December 4.

  8. Grinding (abrasive cutting) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grinding_(abrasive_cutting)

    Grinding is a subset of cutting, as grinding is a true metal-cutting process. Each grain of abrasive functions as a microscopic single-point cutting edge (although of high negative rake angle), and shears a tiny chip that is analogous to what would conventionally be called a "cut" chip (turning, milling, drilling, tapping, etc.) [citation needed].

  9. ‘The Cutting Edge’ at 30: D.B. Sweeney talks toe picks, the ...

    www.aol.com/entertainment/cutting-edge-30-d-b...

    For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us