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  2. Category:Labelled map templates - Wikipedia

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    Templates presenting maps to which labels have been added (e.g. using {{ Image label ...

  3. Buchan trap - Wikipedia

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    The Buchan trap was devised in the 19th century to stop the flow of sewer gases due to the miasma theory of disease. [1] For example, it was believed that the disease cholera was an airborne infection, not waterborne. The Buchan trap is normally found in the bottom of manholes or drop-shafts.

  4. Trap (plumbing) - Wikipedia

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    In plumbing, a trap is a U-shaped portion of pipe designed to trap liquid or gas to prevent unwanted flow; most notably sewer gases from entering buildings while allowing waste materials to pass through. In oil refineries, traps are used to prevent hydrocarbons and other dangerous gases and chemical fumes from escaping through drains.

  5. Section (United States land surveying) - Wikipedia

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    The existence of section lines made property descriptions far more straightforward than the old metes and bounds system. The establishment of standard east-west and north-south lines ("township" and "range lines") meant that deeds could be written without regard to temporary terrain features such as trees, piles of rocks, fences, and the like, and be worded in the style such as "Lying and ...

  6. Gully - Wikipedia

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    A gully is a landform created by running water, mass movement, or commonly a combination of both eroding sharply into soil or other relatively erodible material, typically on a hillside or in river floodplains or terraces.

  7. Engineering drawing - Wikipedia

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    ISO Lettering templates, designed for use with technical pens and pencils, and to suit ISO paper sizes, produce lettering characters to an international standard. The stroke thickness is related to the character height (for example, 2.5 mm high characters would have a stroke thickness - pen nib size - of 0.25 mm, 3.5 would use a 0.35 mm pen and ...

  8. Template:World Labelled Map - Wikipedia

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    Optional. If given, specifies a font size for the labels. For example, |font-size=85% displays labels in a smaller font size. If omitted, font size will inherit from surrounding content. |font-size= can also be set on each individual {{image label}} to adjust the font size for that label.

  9. Wikipedia : Route diagram template/Transwiki guide

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    The number in these row templates indicates how many grid the template provides to display the icon horizontally. Theoretically it can be expanded endlessly, 8 icons per row is enough in most cases. Otherwise the map will spread too far and other method of rendering the map is recommended over this project.