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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In machinery, a device for feeding the tool or material crosswise in relation to the principal motion of either, or in relation to the long axis of the machine.

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Examples

  • We are in the process of working on cross-feed duplicate detection and the number of such inflated numbers should be reduced in the future.

    Allan Jenkins' Desirable Roasted Coffee 2005

  • When a single blog has more than one feed, it is actually non-trivial to figure out which to read and how to do cross-feed duplicate detection...

    Allan Jenkins' Desirable Roasted Coffee 2005

  • MICHAEL FUDGE, ITT INDUSTRIES: Well, Miles, the reason is that they do not have cross-feed capability between the tanks and this progress M1 vehicle.

    CNN Transcript - Special Event: Mir Falls to Earth - March 23, 2001 2001

  • Humidity control would have to be sacrificed—that hardware would be in use for the network cross-feed.

    Flashback Brannon Braga 1996

  • Humidity control would have to be sacrificed—that hardware would be in use for the network cross-feed.

    Flashback Brannon Braga 1996

  • Humidity control would have to be sacrificed—that hardware would be in use for the network cross-feed.

    Flashback Brannon Braga 1996

  • A represents the cross-feed or slide rest screw, which operates the three slide rests.

    Scientific American, Volume XXXVI., No. 8, February 24, 1877 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. Various

  • Each of the two upper turrets have +/- 40mm of travel as cross-feed in the Y-axis while the lower turret is able to position to either spindle and create an overlap situation.

    Manufacturingtalk - manufacturing industry news 2010

  • The concept of the bx_dynEQ.is a truely NEW approach to dynamic EQ.ing, using innovative M/S features to allow for results not possible with any other EQ. The stereo version introduces our unique "cross-feed" M/S feature, which allows M

    2BakSa.Net mechanism 2010

  • The people Kate meets include sisters who cross-feed their babies; women who are able to breast-feed even though they have never been pregnant; surrogate mothers who produce two gallons of milk a week for donation; and a cancer sufferer who believes breast milk has cured his condition.

    VeryCD - 电驴资源订阅 2008

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