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2. Steel square - Wikipedia

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   The steel square is a tool used in carpentry.Carpenters use various tools to lay out structures that are square (that is, built at accurately measured right angles), many of which are made of steel, but the name steel square refers to a specific long-armed square that has additional uses for measurement, especially of various angles.

3. Square (tool) - Wikipedia

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   A square is a tool used for marking and referencing a 90° angle, though mitre squares are used for 45° angles. Squares see common use in woodworking, metalworking, construction and technical drawing. [1] Some squares incorporate a scale for measuring distances (a ruler) or for calculating angles.

4. Rotary tool - Wikipedia

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   A pneumatic die grinder with a right-angle head. A cordless battery-powered rotary tool used for light tasks. A die grinder or rotary tool is a handheld power tool and multitool used for grinding, sanding, honing, polishing, or machining material (typically metal, but also plastic or wood).

5. Combination square - Wikipedia

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   [1] [2] Other names for the tool include adjustable square, combo square, and sliding square. The most common head is the standard head, which is used as a square for marking and testing 90° and 45° angles. [3] The other common types of head are the protractor head, and the centre finder head. [4]

6. Right angle - Wikipedia

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   The straight lines which form right angles are called perpendicular. [8] Euclid uses right angles in definitions 11 and 12 to define acute angles (those smaller than a right angle) and obtuse angles (those greater than a right angle). [9] Two angles are called complementary if their sum is a right angle. [10]

7. Drafting machine - Wikipedia

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   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. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The protractor head (two scales and protractor mechanism) is able to move freely across the surface of the drawing board , sliding on two guides ...