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overhaul

[′ō·vər‚hȯl]
(engineering)
A maintenance procedure for machinery involving disassembly, the inspecting, refinishing, adjusting, and replacing of parts, and reassembly and testing.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

overhaul

The movement of excavated material beyond a distance for which there are no haulage charges.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. Copyright © 2003 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

overhaul

The maintenance procedure in which an airplane, or its components, is disassembled, inspected, serviced, if necessary repaired, and restored to a condition of normal operation.
An Illustrated Dictionary of Aviation Copyright © 2005 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved
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