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Definition of Rackwork

1. n. Any mechanism having a rack, as a rack and pinion.

Definition of Rackwork

1. Noun. Any mechanism with a rack, such as a rack and pinion. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rackwork

1. a type of mechanism [n -S] - See also: mechanism

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rackwork

Literary usage of Rackwork

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

1. A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments: Explanatory of Their Scientific by Negretti and Zambra (1864)
"... and portable screw 42/ to 10 0 16 Ditto ditto, with glass cover over the face, rackwork vernier and thermometer . 15 0 17 Portable Pediment Barometer, ..."

2. Elementary Treatise on Physics Experimental and Applied for the Use of by Adolphe Ganot (1890)
"The current rising in H descends by the positive charcoal, then by the negative charcoal, and reaches the apparatus'but without passing into the rackwork C, ..."

3. Elementary Treatise on Physics Experimental and Applied for the Use of by Adolphe Ganot (1883)
"The current rising in H descends by the positive charcoal, then by the negative charcoal, and reaches the apparatus, but without passing into the rackwork C ..."

4. Elementary Treatise on Physics: Experimental and Applied, for the Use of by Adolphe Ganot (1877)
"For this purpose it acts attractively on an armature of soft iron, A, open in the centre so as to allow the rackwork C' to pass, and fixed at the end of a ..."

5. The Microscope: An Illustrated Monthly Designed to Popularize the Subject of (1894)
"Fitted with fine adjustment of utmost sensui and precision, not Hable to derangement by wear. Has rackwork Draw tube to adjust Objectives to the thickness ..."

6. The Electrical Engineer (1893)
"The rackwork, C, stops the movement of the wheel q when this latter has described an angle proportional to E C. As soon as the ..."

7. Handbook of Practical Botany: For the Botanical Laboratory and Private Student by Eduard Strasburger, William Hillhouse (1900)
"B, with body jointed to tripod foot, rackwork coarse and micrometer screw fine adjustments, two eye-pieces, $ and J objectives, magnifying from 60-525 ..."

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