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blank 1. a plate or plug used to seal an aperture 2. a piece of material prepared for stamping, punching, forging, etc 3. Archery the white spot in the centre of a target blank [blaŋk] (analytical chemistry) In a chemical analysis, the measured value that is obtained in the absence of a specified component of a sample and that reflects contamination from sources external to the component; it is deducted from the value obtained when the test is performed with the specified component present. Also known as analytical blank. (design engineering) (electronics) To cut off the electron beam of a television picture tube, camera tube, or cathode-ray oscilloscope tube during the process of retrace by applying a rectangular pulse voltage to the grid or cathode during each retrace interval. Also known as beam blank. (engineering) The result of the final cutting operation on a natural crystal. (metallurgy) A semifinished piece of metal to be stamped or forged into a tool or implement. A semifinished, pressed, compacted mass of powdered metal. Metal sheet prepared for a forming operation. (ordnance) Ammunition which contains no projectile but which does contain a charge of low explosive, such as black powder, to produce a noise. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Outside his World, or Line, all was a blank to him; nay, not even a blank, for a blank implies Space; say, rather, all was non-existent. immediately transmitted it to me, filling up the blank with my name. [7] If the invasion of the legitimate sphere of prose in England by the spirit of poetry, weaker or stronger, has been something far deeper than is indicated by that tendency to write unconscious blank verse, which has made it feasible to transcribe about one-half of Dickens's otherwise so admirable Barnaby Rudge in blank-verse lines, a tendency (outdoing our old friend M. |
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