Definition of Retightened

1. Verb. (past of retighten) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Retightened

1. retighten [v] - See also: retighten

Lexicographical Neighbors of Retightened

reticulospinal
reticulospinal tract
reticulotomy
reticulum
reticulum cell
reticulum cell sarcoma
reticulum trabeculare sclerae
reticulums
retie
retied
retieing
reties
retiform
retighten
retightened
retightening
retightens
retile
retiled
retiles
retiling
retime
retimed
retimes
retiming
retina
retina-specific amine oxidase
retinacula
retinacula musculorum fibularium

Literary usage of Retightened

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Scientific Management: A Collection of the More Significant Articles edited by Clarence Bertrand Thompson (1914)
"The belts were in all cases cared for and retightened only upon written orders sent from the shop office; and an accurate record was kept through nine years ..."

2. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1910)
"... and belts should be systematically retightened at regular intervals, with belt-clamps fitted with spring-balances, each belt having the tightening ..."

3. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1876)
"To all these methods there is some objection, either severe pain is caused, or the ligature has to be constantly retightened. In my experience, now, ..."

4. Power Transmission by Leather Belting by Robert Thurston Kent (1916)
"This is the tension to which the belt is retightened. te= centrifugal tension in belt, or loss in effective tension due to centrifugal force, ..."

5. Transactions by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1907)
"The belts were in all cases cared for and retightened only upon written orders sent from the shop office; and an accurate record was kept through nine years ..."

6. Nature by Nature Publishing Group, Norman Lockyer (1883)
"I relaxed my grasp and instantly retightened it, and then the whistle emitted a pure note. A little common air had regurgitated into the whistle when my ..."

7. A Handbook of Sugar Analysis: A Practical and Descriptive Treatise for Use by Charles Albert Browne (1912)
"... holding it firmly in this position, the nut which governs the micrometer is retightened. The new adjustment should be controlled by repeated readings. ..."

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