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    A plumb bob, plumb bob level, or plummet, is a weight, usually with a pointed tip on the bottom, suspended from a string and used as a vertical direction...
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    Map all coordinates in "Operation Plumbbob" using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary...
    38 KB (1,916 words) - 19:52, 16 February 2025
  • construction, the direction designated as vertical is usually that along which a plumb-bob hangs. Alternatively, a spirit level that exploits the buoyancy of an...
    17 KB (2,138 words) - 02:38, 16 December 2024
  • up Plumb, plumb, or plumb- in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Plumb may refer to: Plumb, a 1995 album by Jonatha Brooke & The Story Plumb (Plumb album)...
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    attached to the apex of the quadrant with a bead, for calculation, and a plumb bob. They were also sometimes drawn on the back of astrolabes. The universal...
    23 KB (2,881 words) - 17:44, 10 January 2025
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    plumb bob, or plummet, is a weight, usually with a pointed tip on the bottom, suspended from a string and used as a vertical reference line, or plumb-line...
    18 KB (2,547 words) - 18:20, 25 July 2024
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    rotation). It is a vector quantity, whose direction coincides with a plumb bob and strength or magnitude is given by the norm g = ‖ g ‖ {\displaystyle...
    31 KB (3,808 words) - 12:51, 10 March 2025
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    nadir being opposite of zenith and the direction of gravity as defined by a plumb line. 77°47′S 160°33′E / 77.783°S 160.550°E / -77.783; 160.550. A small...
    23 KB (4,029 words) - 13:41, 12 March 2024
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    brooch suggest the presence of women. One of the inscribed objects is a plumb bob with "CHOI", or "C(o)HO(rtis) I", i.e. "property of the first cohort"...
    6 KB (595 words) - 15:24, 30 October 2024
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    the pendulum's plumb-bob slightly out of true (in the sense that it does not point to the centre of mass of the Earth). The change in plumb-line angle against...
    32 KB (3,687 words) - 13:13, 27 January 2025
  • up plummet in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Plummet may refer to: Plumb bob, a weighted line used as a vertical reference Sinker (fishing) Plummet...
    305 bytes (68 words) - 00:02, 3 September 2023
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    causing this deflection induced by the pull of a nearby mountain upon a plumb-bob in 1772 and sent Mason (who had returned to Britain) on a site survey...
    51 KB (5,853 words) - 07:38, 9 March 2025
  • in either direction. It is not a "viscosity". Similarly, a stationary plumb-bob suspended over the rotating object will not list. It will hang vertically...
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    plastic. The mounting screw is hollow and has two lateral holes to attach a plumb bob to center the instrument e.g. over a corner or other mark on the ground...
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    A laser line level is a tool combining a spirit level and/or plumb bob with a laser to display an accurately horizontal or vertical illuminated line on...
    2 KB (249 words) - 12:25, 29 November 2023
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    designed to indicate whether a surface is horizontal (level) or vertical (plumb). Two basic designs exist: tubular (or linear) and bull's eye (or circular)...
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    purposes, such as in: Anchor Balance weight Ballast Bob Counterweight Fishing sinker Paperweight Plumb bob Tuned mass damper Weight training equipment...
    629 bytes (52 words) - 12:18, 12 December 2024
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    triclinium (now in Naples), the skull is crowned with a carpenter's square and plumb-bob, which dangles before its empty eyesockets (Death as the great leveler)...
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    two traditional tools for construction - the carpenter's square and the plumb-bob. At the senior chief petty officer level, the builder rating merges with...
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  • the octant and sextant. Quadrant A very simple instrument which used a plumb bob. These instruments are also used to measure the angular distance between...
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