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finger joint

An end joint made up of several meshing fingers of wood made with a machine and glued together. See also: Joint
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finger joint

finger joint
A heading joint having interlaced, finger-like projections on the ends of the joined members.
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So surely as a great nation has weakened with prosperity, so that her limbs have lost their suppleness and her finger joints have stiffened, so surely does the plunderer come in good time.
Also here were works reflecting another aspect of Silverthorne's art: on a shelf, two scraps of Styrofoam--junk from the casting process, each about as long as a finger joint, elevated on black sponges; and on the floor, copies of these forms, again enlarged, on sponge-shaped pedestals of their own.
Cook began developing his bat in 1988 by experimenting with a variety of woods, adhesives, and finger joint lengths.
The researchers recorded what happened inside the finger joint in real-time as each of the subject's fingers were pulled slowly until the joints cracked.
With higher profit margins than processed finger joint wood panels, the Group has been actively promoting the sales of processed wood panels, with sales in this segment increasing from around 81.1% in the corresponding period last year to around 94.6% this year.
At the same time, Digits had to deliver superior gesture sensing and "understand" the human hand, from wrist orientation to the angle of each finger joint.
Based on previous research, a model of the risk of chipping relative to sound knot size and distance to a finger joint is a hypothetically beneficial approach.
Market conditions recently forced Tembec to restructure five of its sawmills in northeastern Ontario, cutting some jobs and creating new value-added positions for a proposed Kirkland Lake finger joint mill.
A study found that men who have osteoarthritis in any finger joint are 42 per cent more likely to die of heart disease compared with those without the condition.
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