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81Quarter Sawing — Quarter Sawn lumber is produced by first quartering the log lengthwise and then sawing each quarter lengthwise with parallel cuts, roughly perpendicular to the growth rings. It possess advantages over plain sawn lumber because of the orientation… …
82Quarter glass — (or quarter light) on automobiles and closed carriages may be a side window in the front door or located on each side of the car just forward of the rear window of the vehicle. [ [http://www.motorera.com/dictionary/QUA.HTM#QuarterWindow Quarter… …
83Quarter-comma meantone — was the most common meantone temperament in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and was sometimes used later. In this tuning the perfect fifth is tempered by one quarter of a syntonic comma in order to obtain just major thirds (5:4). It was… …
84Quarter tense — (called in all other English speaking countries ember days ) is a uniquely Irish name for those days set aside in the western Christian church for prayer and fasting to sanctify the liturgical seasons. They are of very ancient and uncertain… …
85Quarter bin — is a phrase common in the American comic book community used to describe discount boxes of comic books [ [http://funnybooks.blogspot.com/2006/10/dumpster diving tales from quarter bin.html Funnybooks: Dumpster Diving Tales from the quarter bin] …
86Quarter pipe — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Un quarter pipe es una rampa usada, generalmente, en la práctica de los deportes extremos. Representa un cuarto de un pipe, de ahí su nombre. Estas rampas pueden encontrarse en skateparks, zonas dedicadas a la… …
87quarter day — ˈquarter day noun [countable] FINANCE ACCOUNTING a day that officially begins a three month period of the year, and on which payments are made: • Rent is payable in advance on the usual quarter days. * * * quarter day UK US noun [C] UK ► …
88Quarter-inch cartridge — tape (abbreviated QIC, commonly pronounced quick ) is a magnetic tape data storage format introduced by 3M in 1972, with derivatives still in use as of 2009. QIC comes in a rugged enclosed package of aluminum and plastic that holds two tape reels …
89quarter day — any of four days in the year when certain payments become due. In England, they are Lady Day (25 March), Midsummer Day (24 June), Michaelmas Day (29 September) and Christmas Day (25 December). For Scotland the days are Candlemas (28 February),… …
90quarter-on-quarter — UK US adjective [before noun] ► ACCOUNTING, FINANCE used to describe a period of three months in a company s financial year when comparing one period with the previous period: » We ve had steady quarter on quarter growth in market share …
