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  2. Drafter - Wikipedia

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    Traditional drafter at work A drafter in Portugal in the 1970s, using a drafting machine. A drafter (also draughtsman / draughtswoman in British and Commonwealth English, draftsman / draftswoman, drafting technician, or CAD technician in American and Canadian English) is an engineering technician who makes detailed technical drawings or CAD designs for machinery, buildings, electronics ...

  3. Technical drawing - Wikipedia

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    The drafter uses several technical drawing tools to draw curves and circles. Primary among these are the compasses, used for drawing arcs and circles, and the French curve, for drawing curves. A spline is a rubber coated articulated metal that can be manually bent to most curves.

  4. Draughtsman - Wikipedia

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    An architectural drafter, who produced architectural drawings until the late 20th century; An artist who produces drawings that rival or surpass their other types of artwork; A drafter who prepares technical drawings; A law costs draftsman who settles the costs of legal fees; A parliamentary draftsman who prepares legislation

  5. Technical drawing tool - Wikipedia

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    A French curve is a drawing aid with many different smoothly-varying radiused curves on it; the manual drafter can fit the French curve to some known reference points and draw a smooth curved line between them.

  6. Drafting machine - Wikipedia

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    Drafting machine attached to a drawing board. A drafting machine is a tool used in technical drawing, consisting of a pair of scales mounted to form a right angle on an articulated protractor head that allows an angular rotation.

  7. Encyclopedia - Wikipedia

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    Indeed, the purpose of an encyclopedia is to collect knowledge disseminated around the globe; to set forth its general system to the men with whom we live, and transmit it to those who will come after us, so that the work of preceding centuries will not become useless to the centuries to come; and so that our offspring, becoming better instructed, will at the same time become more virtuous and ...

  8. Draft document - Wikipedia

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    A draft of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Infamy Speech, including the President's handwritten annotations.. In the context of written composition, drafting refers to any process of generating preliminary versions of a written work.

  9. Contra proferentem - Wikipedia

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    Contra proferentem (Latin: "against [the] offeror"), [1] also known as "interpretation against the draftsman", is a doctrine of contractual interpretation providing that, where a promise, agreement or term is ambiguous, the preferred meaning should be the one that works against the interests of the party who provided the wording.