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A cotter is a pin or wedge passing through a hole to fix parts tightly together. In British usage cotter pin has the same meaning, [1] but in the U.S. it means a split pin . Typical applications are in fixing a crank to its crankshaft, as in a bicycle, and a piston rod to a crosshead, as in a steam engine. The angle of the wedge determines the ...
Pin trading at the 2012 London Olympics Coca Cola Olympic Pin Trading Centre at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. Pin trading is the practice of buying, selling, and exchanging collectible pins – most often lapel pins associated with a particular common theme, as well as related items – such as lanyards, bags, and hats to store and display the pins – as a hobby.
The Google Maps pin is the inverted-drop-shaped icon that marks locations in Google Maps. The pin is protected under a U.S. design patent as "teardrop-shaped marker icon including a shadow". [1] [2] Google has used the pin in various graphics, games, and promotional materials. The pin, sometimes referred to as "the marker", [3] has been widely ...
A modern tsumami kanzashi set of the type worn by maiko (apprentice geisha) for the month of January. Kanzashi ( 簪) are hair ornaments used in traditional Japanese hairstyles. The term kanzashi refers to a wide variety of accessories, including long, rigid hairpins, barrettes, fabric flowers and fabric hair ties.
Personal identification number. A personal identification number ( PIN ), or sometimes redundantly a PIN number or PIN code, is a numeric (sometimes alpha-numeric) passcode used in the process of authenticating a user accessing a system. The PIN has been the key to facilitating the private data exchange between different data-processing centers ...
A collar pin (closely related to the collar bar and collar clip) is a piece of men's jewelry, which holds the two ends of a dress shirt collar together and passes underneath the knot of a necktie. Functioning in a similar way as a tabbed collar , it keeps the collar in place and lifts the knot to provide a more aesthetically pleasing arc to the ...
PINS second album Wild Nights was released on Bella Union on 9 June 2015. The album was produced by Dave Catching at Rancho de La Luna in Joshua Tree. The first single "Too Little Too Late" was premiered by Dazed Digital and received national radio airplay on BBC 6 Music including live sessions with Marc Riley and Lauren Laverne .
BS 546, Two-pole and earthing-pin plugs, socket-outlets and socket-outlet adaptors for AC (50–60 Hz) circuits up to 250 V is an older British Standard for three-pin AC power plugs and sockets. Originally published in April 1934, it was updated by a 1950 edition which is still current, [1] with eight amendments up to 1999.