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  2. Glossary of construction cost estimating - Wikipedia

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    Cost - the value of currency required to obtain a product or service, to expend labor and use equipment and tools, or to operate a business. Cost index (or factor) - a value used to adjust the cost of from one time to another. [5] There are various published cost indexes, listed by year, quarter, or month. RSMeans publishes a historical cost ...

  3. Harrow (tool) - Wikipedia

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    Chain harrows are often used for lighter work, such as leveling the tilth or covering the seed, while disc harrows are typically used for heavy work, such as following ploughing to break up the sod. In addition, there are various types of power harrow , in which the cultivators are power-driven from the tractor rather than depending on its ...

  4. Sod - Wikipedia

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    Sod is the upper layer of turf that is harvested for transplanting. Turf consists of a variable thickness of a soil medium that supports a community of turfgrasses. [1] In British and Australian English, sod is more commonly known as turf, and the word "sod" is limited mainly to agricultural senses.

  5. Chemical plant cost indexes - Wikipedia

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    A cost index is the ratio of the actual price in a time period compared to that in a selected base period (a defined point in time or the average price in a certain year), multiplied by 100. Raw materials, products and energy prices, labor and construction costs change at different rates, and plant construction cost indexes are actually a ...

  6. Sod house - Wikipedia

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    A sod farm structure in Iceland Saskatchewan sod house, circa 1900 Unusually well appointed interior of a sod house, North Dakota, 1937. The sod house or soddy [1] was a common alternative to the log cabin during frontier settlement of the Great Plains of Canada and the United States in the 1800s and early 1900s. [2]

  7. List of Latin words with English derivatives - Wikipedia

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  8. Low-cost index funds: A beginner’s guide - AOL

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    Low-cost index funds vs. ETFs vs. mutual funds. You can buy low-cost index funds as either an ETF or a mutual fund, and well-known indexes such as the S&P 500 will have both available. The list ...

  9. Indexing (motion) - Wikipedia

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    Indexing in reference to motion is moving (or being moved) into a new position or location quickly and easily but also precisely. When indexing a machine part, its new location is known to within a few hundredths of a millimeter (thousandths of an inch), or often even to within a few thousandths of a millimeter (ten-thousandths of an inch), despite the fact that no elaborate measuring or ...