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  2. Cable guide - Wikipedia

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    Black plastic cable guide on the bottom of a Trek 5000 bottom bracket shell Metal, braze-on cable guide on the top of a bottom bracket shell. A cable guide is a fitting or part of a bicycle frame which guides a piece of bare inner bowden cable around a corner. Most multi-speed bicycles have cable guides to get the derailleur cables past the ...

  3. Evacuation slide - Wikipedia

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    Evacuation slide used in an emergency drill. An evacuation slide is an inflatable slide used to evacuate an aircraft quickly. An escape slide is required on all commercial (passenger carrying) aircraft where the door sill height is such that, in the event of an evacuation, passengers would be unable to step down from the door uninjured (Federal Aviation Administration requires slides on all ...

  4. Fanout cable - Wikipedia

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    Breakout-style fiberoptic cable (also called breakout cable or fanout cable), is an optical fiber cable containing several jacketed simplex optical fibers packaged together inside an outer jacket. This differs from distribution-style cable , in which tight-buffered fibers are bundled together, with only the outer cable jacket of the cable ...

  5. Way (machine tool element) - Wikipedia

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    The geometry of the way can vary depending on the situation. The most common types are flat, vee, and dovetail ways. Flat ways are used when there is little requirement for the slide to be constrained perpendicular to the axis of movement, or the constraint is being provided by another component or otherwise not needed, such as on the carriage of a lathe.

  6. Glossary of nautical terms (A–L) - Wikipedia

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    cable 1. An especially large or thick rope. 2. A cable length. cable length. Sometimes simply called a cable. A measure of length or distance equivalent to 1 ⁄ 10 nautical mile (608 feet; 185 metres) in the United Kingdom and 100 fathoms (600 feet; 183 metres) in the United States; other countries use different equivalents. caboose

  7. Slide stop - Wikipedia

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    A P226 with breech closed (top) and opened (bottom). On the bottom view, the slide is locked in place by the slide stop.. A slide stop, sometimes referred to as a slide lock, slide release, slide catch, [1] or bolt hold open, is a function on a semi-automatic handgun that both visually indicates when it has expended all loaded ammunition and facilitates faster reloading by pulling back the ...

  8. Slide rule - Wikipedia

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    For example, the range 1 to 10 is a single decade, and the range from 10 to 100 is another decade. Thus, single-decade scales (named C and D) range from 1 to 10 across the entire length of the slide rule, while double-decade scales (named A and B) range from 1 to 100 over the length of the slide rule.

  9. Water slide - Wikipedia

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    The current longest water slide, "The Longest", is a permanent single-passenger tube waterslide located in Penang, Malaysia at the ESCAPE family theme park. Visitors access the attraction via a cable car system and ride down the slide for approximately 4 minutes whilst navigating through 1,111 metres (3,645 ft) of scenic jungle. [6]