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  2. Ball (bearing) - Wikipedia

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    Silicon nitride bearing balls, in diameters ranging from 1 to 20mm. Bearing balls are special highly spherical and smooth balls, most commonly used in ball bearings, but also used as components in things like freewheel mechanisms. The balls themselves are commonly referred to as ball bearings. [1] This is an example of a synecdoche.

  3. Bearing (mechanical) - Wikipedia

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    A ball bearing. A bearing is a machine element that constrains relative motion to only the desired motion and reduces friction between moving parts.The design of the bearing may, for example, provide for free linear movement of the moving part or for free rotation around a fixed axis; or, it may prevent a motion by controlling the vectors of normal forces that bear on the moving parts.

  4. Ball bearing - Wikipedia

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    Working principle for a ball bearing; red dots show direction of rotation. A four-point angular-contact ball bearing. A ball bearing is a type of rolling-element bearing that uses balls to maintain the separation between the bearing races. The purpose of a ball bearing is to reduce rotational friction and support radial and axial loads. It ...

  5. Mathematical discussion of rangekeeping - Wikipedia

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    Rangekeeping is an excellent example of the application of analog computing to a real-world mathematical modeling problem. Because nations had so much money invested in their capital ships , they were willing to invest enormous amounts of money in the development of rangekeeping hardware to ensure that the guns of these ships could put their ...

  6. Traverse (surveying) - Wikipedia

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    Control point — The primary/base control used for preliminary measurements; it may consist of any known point capable of establishing accurate control of distance and direction (i.e. coordinates, elevation, bearings, etc.). Starting – The initial starting control point of the traverse.

  7. Plain bearing - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, the part of the shaft in contact with the bearing slides over the bearing surface. The simplest example of a plain bearing is a shaft rotating in a hole. A simple linear bearing can be a pair of flat surfaces designed to allow motion; e.g., a drawer and the slides it rests on [3] or the ways on the bed of a lathe.

  8. Rolling contact fatigue - Wikipedia

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    Overview of bearing components, including bearing element and inner ring [1] Rolling Contact Fatigue (RCF) is a phenomenon that occurs in mechanical components relating to rolling/sliding contact, such as railways, gears, and bearings. [2] It is the result of the process of fatigue due to rolling/sliding contact.

  9. Linear-motion bearing - Wikipedia

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    For example, a widely used ball bearing slide in the furniture industry is a ball bearing drawer slide. Commonly constructed from materials such as aluminum, hardened cold rolled steel and galvanized steel , ball bearing slides consist of two linear rows of ball bearings contained by four rods and located on differing sides of the base, which ...