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Definition of Needle bearing
1. Noun. Bearings containing small metal balls.
Definition of Needle bearing
1. Noun. A type of roller bearing in which the load-bearing elements are longish, thin, cylindrical pins. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Needle Bearing
Literary usage of Needle bearing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mining: A Journal Devoted to the Interests of Mines and Mining Students (1895)
"ONE PENNY. suitable for a loose needle bearing many surveyors prefer to take ...
to time with the needle, where a correct needle bearing is deemed possible. ..."
2. Colliery Surveying: A Primer Designed for the Use of Students and Colliery by Thomas Aloysius O'Donahue (1896)
"... of iron renders the use of the needle impracticable, and, as it is not always
possible to tell whether a station is suitable for a loose needle bearing ..."
3. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1862)
"The finger now seeks for the external pillar of the ring, and on it the needle,
bearing a loop of the wire already introduced (ie ..."
4. Dwarf Mistletoes: Biology, Pathology, and Systematics by Frank G. Hawksworth, Delbert Wiens (1998)
"They measured needle length, length of needle-bearing stems, number of needles,
and photosynthetic surface on uninfected trees and comparable trees with ..."
5. The Theory and Practice of Surveying: Designed for the Use of Surveyors and by John Butler Johnson (1904)
"... the needle always points in a known direction, and therefore the direction of
any line of sight may be determined by referring it to the needle-bearing. ..."
6. Departmental Notes on Insects that Affect Forestry by Edward Percy Stebbing (1903)
"sp. beetle described below, entails a loss to the tree of young needle bearing
twigs with the consequent decrease in the area of foliage— always a serious ..."
7. Van Nostrand's Eclectic Engineering Magazine (1878)
"In the majority of the lines I found a marked variation of the needle bearing,
and in scarcely two successive positions would it assume precisely the same ..."
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