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The lighter woodwork in the interior of a building; especially, that used around openings, generally in the form of a molded architrave, to protect the plastering at those points.
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A kind of mattock, or ax; esp., a tool like a pickax, but having, instead of the points, flat terminations, one of which is parallel to the handle, the other perpendicular to it.
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Three-pointed; ending in three points; as, a tricuspidate leaf.
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Motion in which all the points of the moving body have at any instant the same velocity and direction of motion; -- opposed to rotation.
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A kind of clamp with gimlet points for holding a barrel head while the staves are being closed around it.
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The little wheel of a spur, with sharp points.
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An instrument for measuring in volts the differences of potential between different points of an electrical circuit.
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An assemblage of members of wood or metal, supported at two points, and arranged to transmit pressure vertically to those points, with the least possible strain across the length of any member. Architectural trusses when left visible, as in open timber roofs, often contain members not needed for construction, or are built with greater massiveness than is requisite, or are composed in unscientific ways in accordance with the exigencies of style.
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Having three cusps, or points; tricuspidate; as, a tricuspid molar.
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Full of asperities on the surface; broken into sharp or irregular points, or otherwise uneven; not smooth; rough; as, a rugged mountain; a rugged road.
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Destitute of bards, or of reversed points, hairs, or plumes; as, an unbarded feather.
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A certain function relating to a system of forces and their points of application, -- first used by Clausius in the investigation of problems in molecular physics.
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fit or furnish with a Vandyke; to form with points or scallops like a Vandyke.
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A kind of game at ball played by three persons standing at the angular points of a triangle.
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Having three knots or nodes; having three points from which a leaf may shoot; as, a trinodal stem.
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Rough to the touch, like a file; having small raised dots, scales, or points; scabby; scurfy; scaly.
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A man who has charge of railroad points or switches.
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A turning; a time; -- chiefly used in phrases signifying that the part is to be repeated one, two, or more times; as, una volta, once. Seconda volta, second time, points to certain modifications in the close of a repeated strain.
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Having three nodal points.
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The series or network of triangles into which the face of a country, or any portion of it, is divided in a trigonometrical survey; the operation of measuring the elements necessary to determine the triangles into which the country to be surveyed is supposed to be divided, and thus to fix the positions and distances of the several points connected by them.
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