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tram

1
an electrically driven public transport vehicle that runs on rails let into the surface of the road, power usually being taken from an overhead wire
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2
Machinery a fine adjustment that ensures correct function or alignment
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3
(in weaving) a weft yarn of two or more twisted strands of silk
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T-RAM

(Thyristor RAM) A static RAM (SRAM) technology from T-RAM Semiconductor Inc., Mountain View, CA (www.t-ram.com) that provides higher densities than the common static RAM chip, which uses six transistors (6T SRAM). T-RAM is based on the Thin Capacitively-Coupled Thyristor (TCCT) process. See thyristor.
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Sandel's Harvard course "Justice" starts with a question: While a trolley car is running at full speed, its brakes fail.
McInerney said that after driving around the region recently, he was prompted to make one suggestion to the WRTA and Central Massachusetts Regional Planning Commission: "I did make a pitch about look of buses: I would rather see a trolley car shuttling through Grafton (like there used to be) than a big bus."
On Good Friday, the empty trolley car with me and--swollen up--a man-woman with pink nail polish on the cuticles-- a guy, first, I supposed--who took small sips of nail-polish remover and had no plans, she said, for Easter weekend but to follow the line in circles, round and round, till midnight, an extra plastic cup showing through her plastic bag.
The Herald also stated, "it is doubtful if any Kalamazoo transportation company is doing a business which in any measure compares with that done by the trolley car which operates on Westerns campus hillside."
He was killed by a runaway trolley car in 1902 while protecting President Theodore Roosevelt in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
In Hollywood, a mixer put in the appropriate sounds, often trolley car or cable car bells, always police and ambulance sirens.
Maya became the first woman streetcar conductor in San Francisco after she fought against the Trolley Car Company because they wouldn't hire a black woman.
Other items invented in this region include the electric trolley car, the mop, the refrigerator and Tupperware.
Pallets are fed into the system from a pallet dispenser, via a space saving trolley car system that feeds them under the outfeed bag accumulating conveyors.
Cal Trans director Adriana Gianturco is a strong proponent of jitneys, noting their widespread use in Los Angeles early in this century, until outlawed by the state under pressure from trolley car systems."
This close proximity of the railway lines, as well as the introduction of the electric trolley car, offered cheap transportation to city workers and served as a shipping point for the new businesses located in Elsmere.
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