slide

slide

1. Rowing a sliding seat in a boat or its runners

2. a thin glass plate on which specimens are mounted for microscopic study

3. a positive photograph on a transparent base, mounted in a cardboard or plastic frame or between glass plates, that can be viewed by means of a slide projector

4. Machinery

a. a sliding part or member

b. the track, guide, or channel on or in which such a part slides

5. Music

a. the sliding curved tube of a trombone that is moved in or out to allow the production of different harmonic series and a wider range of notes

b. a portamento

6. Music

a. a metal or glass tube placed over a finger held against the frets of a guitar to produce a portamento

b. the style of guitar playing using a slide

7. Geology

a. the rapid downward movement of a large mass of earth, rocks, etc., caused by erosion, faulting, etc.

b. the mass of material involved in this descent

Collins Discovery Encyclopedia, 1st edition © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

slide

[slīd]

(engineering)

A sloping chute with a flat bed.

A sliding mechanism.

(geology)

A vein of clay intersecting and dislocating a vein vertically, or the vertical dislocation itself.

A rotational or planar mass movement of earth, snow, or rock resulting from failure under shear stress along one or more surfaces.

(mechanical engineering)

The main reciprocating member of a mechanical press, guided in a press frame, to which the punch or upper die is fastened.

(mining engineering)

An upright rail fixed in a shaft with corresponding grooves for steadying the cages.

A trough used to guide and to support rods in a tripod when drilling an angle hole. Also known as rod slide.

(ordnance)

Sliding part of the receiver of certain automatic weapons.

Sliding catch on the breech mechanism of certain weapons.

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Slide

 

in machine building, that part of a metalcutting machine tool or other machine designed to move a tool, workpiece, or subassembly of the machine in two, usually perpendicular, directions; it usually has two guide systems. Slides are classified as longitudinal, transverse, and swing types. Medium-sized machines have solid slides, and heavy machine tools use box-shaped hollow slides. SCh 15–32 cast (pig) iron is mostly used. The fixed metal beams on which machine subassemblies, such as electric motors, are moved during operation are also called slides.

The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.