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bend

Nautical a knot or eye in a line for joining it to another or to an object
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bend

[bend]
(design engineering)
The characteristic of an object, such as a machine part, that is curved.
A section of pipe that is curved.
A knot formed by a rope fastened to an object or another rope.
(electromagnetism)
A smooth change in the direction of the longitudinal axis of a waveguide.
(geology)
A curve or turn occurring in a stream course, bed, or channel which has not yet become a meander.
The land area partly encircled by a bend or meander.
(navigation)
The departure of a defined navigation course or bearing from a straight line.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

pipe bend

A pipe fitting, 1 used to achieve a change in direction.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. Copyright © 2003 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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In tests conducted at the Forest Products Laboratory, urea-treated wood did not bend as easily and developed more stress failures than steamed wood.
The girls simply have an incredible range of motion -- their bones, muscles, and other body tissues work together to help them bend farther, arch higher, and stretch more (much more) than most of us can.
The back-gauge and sensor system includes several potentiometers that check the workpiece's squareness and flange size to an accuracy of [+ or -]0.004 inch (within 2 microseconds) on every bend, then feeds those data back to the bending robot via a closed-loop servo communications system so the robot can compensate for errors in material positioning (within 8 microseconds).
Bend Financial is a Boston-based technology and services company that provides health savings account and financial wellness solutions to individuals, employers and organizations in the group benefits distribution market.
Twenty three sections from beginning to end of the bend, each of which has twelve cross sections, are used in order to measure flow velocity along the bend.
In the early 1980s, with Oregon frozen in a recession, the stock question from Bend residents fleeing for work elsewhere was: "Will the last person out please turn out the lights?"
For the operation of a pneumatic conveying system it is important that the pressure drop at bends should be as low as possible.
has been certified for the manufacture of bend restrictors under the American Petroleum Institute's specification for flexible pipe ancillary equipment (API 17L1 Ed.
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