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2. Paper cutter - Wikipedia

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   A paper cutter 1820s old style paper cutter A safety (rotary) paper cutter Large format paper cutter Small format paper cutter, part of the Museum Europäischer Kulturen, Berlin, Germany. A paper cutter, also known as a paper guillotine or simply a guillotine, is a tool often found in offices and classrooms. It is designed to administer ...

3. Paper shredder - Wikipedia

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   Paper shredder. A paper shredder is a mechanical device used to cut sheets of paper into either strips or fine particles. Government organizations, businesses, and private individuals use shredders to destroy private, confidential, or otherwise sensitive documents.

4. Guillotine cutting - Wikipedia

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   A guillotine-cut (also called an edge-to-edge cut) is a straight bisecting line going from one edge of an existing rectangle to the opposite edge, similarly to a paper guillotine. Guillotine cutting is particularly common in the glass industry. Glass sheets are scored along horizontal and vertical lines, and then broken along these lines to ...

5. Guillotine - Wikipedia

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   Guillotine. A guillotine (/ ˈɡɪlətiːn, - loʊ -/ GHIH-lə-teen, -⁠loh-) is an apparatus designed for efficiently carrying out executions by beheading. The device consists of a tall, upright frame with a weighted and angled blade suspended at the top. The condemned person is secured with a pillory at the bottom of the frame, holding the ...

6. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin - Wikipedia

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   Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (French: [ʒozɛf iɲas ɡijɔtɛ̃]; 28 May 1738 – 26 March 1814) was a French physician, politician, and freemason who proposed on 10 October 1789 the use of a device to carry out executions in France, as a less painful method of execution than existing methods. Although he did not invent the guillotine and opposed ...

7. Guillotine partition - Wikipedia

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   A guillotine-cut (also called an edge-to-edge cut) is a straight bisecting line going from one edge of an existing polygon to the opposite edge, similarly to a paper guillotine . Guillotine partition is particularly common in designing floorplans in microelectronics. An alternative term for a guillotine-partition in this context is a slicing ...