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Multilingual Technical Dictionary (MTD)
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Term No.Term Name/Term DescriptionAction
2703
Turbine setting
The level at which the distributor or runner of the turbine is set with reference to the minimum tail water level.
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2704
Open pit setting
A turbine setting that provides for installation of the turbine in an open pit horizontally or vertically with the turbine shaft passing from the pit into the machine room and if necessary by means of a stuffing box. The turbine is always under water (illustrated)......
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2705
Vertical concrete spiral cased setting
A turbine setting when the turbine is installed in the vertical position and the water is guided by a spiral casing (illustrated)......
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2706
Siphon-pit setting
A type of turbine setting used when the head is insufficient to provide a permanent water seal to the turbine. The water passes through the turbine under siphonic action (illustrated)......
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3703
Setting
The ratio of the depth below full supply level of the crest or sill of an outlet, or the bottom of a pipe to the full supply depth of the channel at that point (Hs/D)......
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5520
Quick setting cement
A cement that sets more rapidly than ordinary or rapid-hardening Portland cement.
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5527
Setting time (cement)
Time required for a given cement, mixed as a paste, to cease to be workable. (See initial setting time; Final setting time.).....
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5529
Final setting time, or Period of final set
The time determined by the standardized test when a fresh paste of cement and water acquires prescribed firmness to resist a certain specified pressure......
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5531
Initial setting time (of cement)
The period elapsing between the time when water is first added to cement to form a paste and the time when that paste ceases to be fluid and plastic, to a specified degree under the specified conditions of test......
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5548
Initial and final setting time determination
The apparatus used in the test is known as Vicat Apparatus.
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8630
Goal setting
A term used to refer to aims, objects and targets of meta-planning.
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