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Dictionary Mechanical Engineer PDF
Mechanical Engineering
Fourth Edition
G.H.F. Nayler
MSc, CEng, MIMechE, MRAeS
Butterworth-Heinemann
Oxford Boston Johannesburg
Melbourne New Delhi Singapore
First published by George Newnes Ltd, 1967
Second edition 1975
reprinted 1978, 1981
Third edition 1985
Copyright © 1967, 1975, 1985, 1996 G.H.F. Nayler
Printed and bound in the United States of America.
Butterworth-Heinemann
Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP
A division of Reed Educational and Professional Publishing Ltd.
A member of the Reed Elsevier plc group
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Butterworth-Heinemann ISBN 0 7506 3009 4
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The illustrations are intended to help the less expert and are spread over the
large field of mechanical engineering, while avoiding intricate subjects which
are too complicated for simple line drawings.
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The authors are much indebted to Miss E. E. Metcalfe for her valuable assis-
tance in the preparation of the line drawings, and to the Publishers' staff* for
their helpful cooperation at all times during the passage of the dictionary
through the press.
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Preface to Fourth Edition
The dictionary has been further updated and enlarged while retaining practi-
cally all of its original contents. With the recent advances in very small size
mechanical engineering, micromachining and nanotechnology have been in-
cluded. Nomenclature used in the manufacture of composites has also been
added. Terms which have their main usage on the North American Continent
now receive more prominence than previously. Cross-references have always
been given full and careful attention and, where relevant, the reader is guided,
as in a thesaurus, to a term of opposite meaning.
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Acknowledgments
I am pleased to record my gratitude to Don Goodsell for his advice and en-
couragement and for the use of four figures from his companion Dictionary
of Automotive Engineering. I am also grateful to the staff of the Society of
Automotive Engineers for their full support in the production of this edition,
and Butterworth-Heinemann for co-publishing this work.
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