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Definition of Fid

Fid
Fid Fid, n. [Prov. E. fid a small, thick lump.] 1. (Naut.) A square bar of wood or iron, used to support the topmast, being passed through a hole or mortise at its heel, and resting on the trestle trees. 2. A wooden or metal bar or pin, used to support or steady anything. 3. A pin of hard wood, tapering to a point, used to open the strands of a rope in splicing. Note: There are hand fids and standing fids (which are larger than the others, and stand upon a flat base). An iron implement for this purpose is called a marline spike. 4. (Mil.) A block of wood used in mounting and dismounting heavy guns.

Meaning of Fid from wikipedia

- A fid is a conical tool traditionally made of wood or bone. It is used to work with rope and canvas in marlinespike seamanship. A fid differs from a marlinspike...
- FID or fid may refer to: Elizabeth Field (Suffolk County, New York), US, IATA code Fid, a hollow spike for use in ropework The Fid, a mountain in Antarctica...
- FIDS may refer to: Flight information display system Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey FID (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles...
- The Fid (68°39′S 65°58′W / 68.650°S 65.967°W / -68.650; -65.967) is a sharp peak rising to 1,640 metres (5,380 ft) at the eastern side of the mouth...
- The Fréchet inception distance (FID) is a metric used to ****ess the quality of images created by a generative model, like a generative adversarial network...
- Foreign internal defense (FID) is a term used by the military in several countries, including the United States, France, and the United Kingdom, to describe...
- The International Federation for Information and Do****entation (FID) was an international organization that was created to promote universal access to...
- A flight information display system (FIDS) is a computer system used in airports to display flight information to p****engers, in which a computer system...
- A flame ionization detector (FID) is a scientific instrument that measures analytes in a gas stream. It is frequently used as a detector in gas chromatography...
- Al-Mu'ayyad fid-din Abu Nasr Hibat Allah b. Abi 'Imran Musa b. Da'ud ash-Shirazi (c. 1000 CE/390 AH – 1078 CE/470 AH) was an 11th-century Isma'ili scholar...