Definition of Spanners. Meaning of Spanners. Synonyms of Spanners

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Definition of Spanners

Spanner
Spanner Span"ner, n. 1. One who, or that which, spans. 2. The lock of a fusee or carbine; also, the fusee or carbine itself. [Obs.] 3. An iron instrument having a jaw to fit a nut or the head of a bolt, and used as a lever to turn it with; a wrench; specifically, a wrench for unscrewing or tightening the couplings of hose. 4. pl. A contrivance in some of the ealier steam engines for moving the valves for the alternate admission and shutting off of the steam.

Meaning of Spanners from wikipedia

- A wrench or spanner is a tool used to provide grip and mechanical advantage in applying torque to turn objects—usually rotary fasteners, such as nuts...
- one fastener size, as with a conventional fixed spanner. There are many forms of adjustable spanners; many of them are ****-adjusted, whereas others...
- November 2017. Raggett, Ned. "Spanners – The Black Dog". AllMusic. Retrieved 6 February 2017. Browne, David (2 June 1995). "Spanners". Entertainment W****ly....
- head and two pins on the tool Spanner (journal), a former British periodical Spanners (album), by The Black Dog Spanner Films, a company founded by film...
- used in the original paper. The notion of graph spanners has been known in graph theory: t-spanners are spanning subgraphs of graphs with similar dilation...
- tether the wrench to the person for safety and securing the tool whilst working at heights. BS 2583: "Specification for podger spanners" (1955) v t e...
- The Spanner Trust is a United Kingdom organisation set up to campaign for the right for adults to take part in consensual BDSM activities without fear...
- are several papers written on the subject of tree spanners. One of these was entitled Tree Spanners written by mathematicians Leizhen Cai and Derek Corneil...
- Spanner is a distributed SQL database management and storage service developed by Google. It provides features such as global transactions, strongly consistent...
- Frini Eveline Adelka Spanner (born 25 September 1958 Sint Eustatius) is a Sint Eustatian politician and leader of the Democratic Party (DP). She is a...