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  2. Engineering drawing abbreviations and symbols - Wikipedia

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    The "W" comes from the element symbol for tungsten, W, which comes from the German Wolfram. WI: wrought iron: Both the material and the abbreviation are obsolete, or nearly so. Spell out the words if this material is to be mentioned at all in modern drawings. W/I, w/i: within: A little-used abbreviation. Better to spell out for clarity. WSP ...

  3. Bullet (typography) - Wikipedia

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    In typography, a bullet or bullet point, •, is a typographical symbol or glyph used to introduce items in a list. For example: Red; Green; Blue; The bullet symbol may take any of a variety of shapes, such as circular, square, diamond or arrow. Typical word processor software offers a wide selection of shapes and colors.

  4. List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks

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    Astronomical symbolsSymbols in astronomy; Chemical symbol – Abbreviations used in chemistry; Chinese punctuation – Punctuation used with Chinese characters; Currency symbolSymbol used to represent a monetary currency's name; Diacritic – Modifier mark added to a letter (accent marks etc.)

  5. Geometric Shapes (Unicode block) - Wikipedia

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    Geometric Shapes is a Unicode block of 96 symbols at code point range U+25A0–25FF. U+25A0–U+25CF. 25A0 25B0 25C0 Symbol ... WHITE SQUARE WITH ROUNDED CORNERS ...

  6. List of symbols - Wikipedia

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    Hazard symbols; List of mathematical constants (typically letters and compound symbols) Glossary of mathematical symbols; List of physical constants (typically letters and compound symbols) List of common physics notations (typically letters used as variable names in equations) Rod of Asclepius / Caduceus as a symbol of medicine

  7. Fillet (mechanics) - Wikipedia

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    Example of a non-filleted pole (left) and a filleted pole (right) It is common to find a fillet where two parts are welded together. In mechanical engineering, a fillet (pronounced / ˈ f ɪ l ɪ t /, like "fill it") is a rounding of an interior or exterior corner of a part.

  8. List of mineral symbols - Wikipedia

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    Mineral symbols (text abbreviations) are used to abbreviate mineral groups, subgroups, and species, just as lettered symbols are used for the chemical elements. The first set of commonly used mineral symbols was published in 1983 and covered the common rock-forming minerals using 192 two- or three-lettered symbols. [ 1 ]

  9. Rounding - Wikipedia

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    This variant of the round-to-nearest method is also called convergent rounding, statistician's rounding, Dutch rounding, Gaussian rounding, odd–even rounding, [6] or bankers' rounding. [ 7 ] This is the default rounding mode used in IEEE 754 operations for results in binary floating-point formats.