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Definition of Slide rest

Slide rest
7. (Geol.) A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure. --Dana. 8. (Mus.) (a) A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below. (b) An apparatus in the trumpet and trombone by which the sounding tube is lengthened and shortened so as to produce the tones between the fundamental and its harmonics. 9. (Phonetics) A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound. 10. (Steam Engine) (a) Same as Guide bar, under Guide. (b) A slide valve. Slide box (Steam Engine), a steam chest. See under Steam. Slide lathe, an engine lathe. See under Lathe. Slide rail, a transfer table. See under Transfer. Slide rest (Turning lathes), a contrivance for holding, moving, and guiding, the cutting tool, made to slide on ways or guides by screws or otherwise, and having compound motion. Slide rule, a mathematical instrument consisting of two parts, one of which slides upon the other, for the mechanical performance of addition and subtraction, and, by means of logarithmic scales, of multiplication and division. Slide valve. (a) Any valve which opens and closes a passageway by sliding over a port. (b) A particular kind of sliding valve, often used in steam engines for admitting steam to the piston and releasing it, alternately, having a cuplike cavity in its face, through which the exhaust steam passes. It is situated in the steam chest, and moved by the valve gear. It is sometimes called a D valve, -- a name which is also applied to a semicylindrical pipe used as a sliding valve.

Meaning of Slide rest from wikipedia

- first versions of the slide rest had many errors that were not present in the Vaucanson lathe. In the eighteenth century the slide rest was also used on French...
- Andrey Nartov in 1718 and another with a slide-rest shown in a 1717 edition of the French Encyclopédie. The slide-rest was a particularly important development...
- patented a lathe that had similarities to the slide rest lathe.: 392–395  Maudslay perfected the slide rest lathe, which could cut machine ****s of different...
- A water slide (also referred to as a flume, or water chute) is a type of slide designed for warm-weather or indoor recreational use at water parks. Water...
- invent the slide-rest (as others such as James Nasmyth have claimed), and may not have been the first to combine a lead ****, slide-rest, and set of...
- ****-cutting lathes of 1797 and 1800, containing the trifecta of lead****, slide rest, and change-gear gear train, all in the right proportions for industrial...
- both ****es. Sliders are distinguished from flip-flops by their vamp strap which does not separate the big toe from the rest of the toes. Slides can be high-heeled...
- Slide It In is the sixth studio album by English rock band Whitesnake. Originally released on 30 January 1984 in Europe, by Liberty/EMI, it was remixed...
- machining operations and the invention of several machine tools, such as the slide rest lathe, ****-cutting lathe, turret lathe, milling machine and metal planer...
- line engine turning machine commonly consisted of an upright slide, a cross slide, a slide rest which holds the cutting tool, and a pattern bar holder "The...