strapping

strapping

[′strap·iŋ]

(electricity)

Connecting two or more points in a circuit or device with a short piece of wire or metal.

(electronics)

Connecting together resonator segments having the same polarity in a multicavity magnetron to suppress undesired modes of oscillation.

(petroleum engineering)

A petroleum industry procedure in which storage tanks are strapped (measured) on their outside with steel measuring tapes to calculate the volumetric capacity of the tank for increments of height.

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

strapping

1. Battens which support a lath-and-plaster construction.

2. Same as banding, 4.

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