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rack

A frame or cabinet into which hardware components are mounted. Equipment may be bolted into the rack (see rack mounted), or placed on shelves. Stereo and home theater racks are cabinets with shelves designed to accommodate VCRs, CD, DVD and cassette decks, receivers, amplifiers and set-top boxes, all of which are typically 17" wide. See deck.

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rack¹

1. a toothed bar designed to engage a pinion to form a mechanism that will interconvert rotary and rectilinear motions

2. a framework fixed to an aircraft for carrying bombs, rockets, etc.

3. History an instrument of torture that stretched the body of the victim

4. US and Canadian in pool, snooker, etc.

a. the triangular frame used to arrange the balls for the opening shot

b. the balls so grouped

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rack²

a group of broken clouds moving in the wind

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rack [rak]

(aerospace engineering)

A suspension device permanently fixed to an aircraft; it is designed for attaching, arming, and releasing one or more bombs; it may also be utilized to accommodate other items such as mines, rockets, torpedoes, fuel tanks, rescue equipment, sonobuoys, and flares.

(civil engineering)

A fixed screen composed of parallel bars placed in a waterway to catch debris.

(design engineering)

relay rack

(engineering)

A frame for holding or displaying articles.

(mechanical engineering)

A bar containing teeth on one face for meshing with a gear.

(mining engineering)

An inclined trough or table for washing or separating ore.