• The rod, perch, or pole (sometimes also lug) is a surveyor's tool and unit of length of various historical definitions. In British imperial and US customary...
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  • up rod or Rod in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Look up ród, röd, rød, or roð in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Rod, Ród, Rőd, Rød, Röd, ROD, or...
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    the perch (one rod unit) and chain (four rods) were standardized in 1607 by Edmund Gunter. The rod unit was still in use as a common unit of measurement...
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    A tie rod or tie bar (also known as a hanger rod if vertical) is a slender structural unit used as a tie and (in most applications) capable of carrying...
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    furlongs, a furlong being 40 rod (unit)s (~201 m) of 5.5 yards (~5.03 m) each. The introduction of the yard (0.9144 m) as a unit of length came later, but...
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    A lightning rod or lightning conductor (British English) is a metal rod mounted on a structure and intended to protect the structure from a lightning...
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    Rodarius Marcell Green (born August 27, 1998), known professionally as Rod Wave, is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. Signed to Alamo Records...
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    later became a butcher after the Great Depression forced the store to close. Rod had an older brother, novelist and aviation writer Robert J. Serling.: 23 ...
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    the age of 24, Hot Rod worked as mortgage broker until spotted by the G-Unit boss 50 Cent, who signed him to his label in 2006. Hot Rod would send his homemade...
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    and male at the other. The surface unit transfers energy for pumping the well from the prime-mover to the sucker rod string. In doing this, it must change...
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    visual phototransduction. Activation of a single unit of rhodopsin, the photosensitive pigment in rods, can lead to a large reaction in the cell because...
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    Furlong (redirect from Furlong (unit))
    distance in imperial units and United States customary units equal to one-eighth of a mile, equivalent to any of 660 feet, 220 yards, 40 rods, 10 chains or approximately...
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  • would go on to be certified Platinum by the RIAA. In 2006, G-Unit Records signed Young Hot Rod. In the same year, in conjunction with Mobb Deep's Infamous...
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  • magazine of tungsten rods and a directional thrust system. When a strike is ordered, the launch vehicle brakes one of the rods out of its orbit and into...
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    rod, also called a 'con rod', is the part of a piston engine which connects the piston to the crankshaft. Together with the crank, the connecting rod...
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  • accompanying band. It was released on February 17, 2009, through Lightning Rod Records. The deluxe version of the album contains an additional four tracks...
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    hundred, ten, unit, tenth, hundredth, thousandth). Examples: Rod numerals are a positional numeral system made from shapes of counting rods. Positive numbers...
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  • vulnerability and Rod's melodic flows. It debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, in which it earned 137,000 album-equivalent units, of which 1...
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    (before being replaced by metric units around 1800), it was known as a vergée, from the French word verge (stick, rod), which was borrowed in English (see...
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  • Rod sheath is an area identified in histologic sections of a tooth. It is found where enamel rods, the functional unit of enamel, meet interrod enamel...
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    Acre (redirect from Acre (unit))
    the following customary units: 66 feet × 660 feet (43,560 square feet) 10 square chains (1 chain = 66 feet = 22 yards = 4 rods = 100 links) 1 acre is approximately...
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    Latin: pertica, measuring rod) was a pre-metric unit of either length or area, with the values varying by location. For a similar unit in Northern Europe, see...
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  • feet, an elne 4 feet. The rod was 15 Anglo-Saxon feet, the furlong 10 rods. An acre was 4 rods × 40 rods, i.e. 160 square rods or 36,000 square Anglo-Saxon...
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  • Beautiful Mind is the fourth studio album by American rapper and singer Rod Wave, released on August 12, 2022, through Alamo Records. The album features...
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    Cuisenaire rods are mathematics learning aids for pupils that provide an interactive, hands-on way to explore mathematics and learn mathematical concepts...
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    Rod calculus or rod calculation was the mechanical method of algorithmic computation with counting rods in China from the Warring States to Ming dynasty...
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    conduct ethnic cleansing. The Collector – Unit 731, a four-issue miniseries by Dark Horse Comics, written by Rod Monteiro and co-written and illustrated...
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    Pumpjack (redirect from Rod pump)
    sucker rod pump, dinosaur pump, Big Texan pump, thirsty bird pump, hobby horse, or just pumping unit. In the early days, pumpjacks worked by rod lines...
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    over 60 million digital units sold in the United States, he is among the highest certified artists in the United States. Rod Wave has achieved three number-one...
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    Rod Jay Rosenstein (/ˈroʊzənˌstaɪn/; born January 13, 1965) is an American attorney who served as the 37th United States deputy attorney general from...
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