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strapping

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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.
strapping
1. Battens which support a lath-and-plaster construction.
2. Same as banding, 4.
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What else can a strapping chap of twenty-one mean with a fine wench of seventeen?
The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
His wife was a "hustler," who gloried in hustling; his family got a comfortable living off the farm; and his strapping sons and daughters, inheriting their mother's energy, were all in a fair way to do well in the world.
Anne's House of Dreams by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
Why, sir, forty years ago, when I was much such a strapping youngster as you, a man expected to pull between the shafts the best part of his life, before he got the whip in his hand.
The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context
 
 
 
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