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The Envy 13 has a 13.1-inch HP LED Ultra BrightView Infinity display with a 1366 × 768 resolution. Available as an upgrade was the HP Radiance Infinity Display with a 1600 × 900 resolution. The 2017 model uses an 8th generation Intel Core i7-8565U chip, 16GB of DDR4 RAM, NVIDIA GeForce MX250 dedicated graphics card, and a 512GB SSD.
A pencil sharpener (or pencil pointer, or in Ireland a parer or topper [1]) is a tool for sharpening a pencil's writing point by shaving away its worn surface. Pencil sharpeners may be operated manually or by an electric motor. It is common for many sharpeners to have a casing around them, which can be removed for emptying the pencil shavings ...
A sharpener is a tool for sharpening. It may refer to: Knife sharpener, a tool for sharpening a knife Sharpening steel, a tool for sharpening a knife, usually a kitchen knife; Sharpening stone, a tool for sharpening a bladed or edged tool, such a knife; Pencil sharpener, a tool for sharpening a pencil
A hand-held tungsten carbide knife sharpener, with a finger guard, can be used for sharpening plain and serrated edges on pocket knives and multi-tools.. Sharpening is the process of creating or refining a blade, the edge joining two non-coplanar faces into a converging apex, thereby creating an edge of appropriate shape on a tool or implement designed for cutting.
The term is based on the word "whet", which means to sharpen a blade, [3] [4] not on the word "wet". The verb nowadays to describe the process of using a sharpening stone for a knife is simply to sharpen, but the older term to whet is still sometimes used, though so rare in this sense that it is no longer mentioned in, for example, the Oxford Living Dictionaries.
A penknife might also be used to sharpen a pencil, [3] prior to the invention of the pencil sharpener. In the mid-1800s, penknives were necessary to slice the uncut edges of newspapers and books. [4] A penknife did not necessarily have a folding blade, but might resemble a scalpel or chisel by having a short, fixed blade at the end of a long ...
The Pencil Sharpener Museum, officially the Paul A. Johnson Pencil Sharpener Museum, is a museum showcasing about 3,479 pencil sharpeners just outside of Logan, Ohio. It is located off Ohio State Route 664, inside the Hocking Hills Regional Welcome Center. It is believed to be the largest collection of these items in the entire country ...
The most common pencil casing is thin wood, usually hexagonal in section, but sometimes cylindrical or triangular, permanently bonded to the core. Casings may be of other materials, such as plastic or paper. To use the pencil, the casing must be carved or peeled off to expose the working end of the core as a sharp point.