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STANDARD BLOCK GAUGE [1 record]

Record 1 2017-06-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Measuring Instruments (Engineering)
  • Machine-Tooling (Metallurgy)
DEF

A chrome steel block having two flat, parallel surfaces with the parallel distance between them being the size marked on the block to a guaranteed accuracy ... used as the standard of precise lineal measurement for most manufacturing processes.

OBS

gage block; gauge block: terms officially approved by the Lexicon Project Committee (New Brunswick).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments de mesure (Ingénierie)
  • Usinage (Métallurgie)
DEF

Pièce prismatique en acier trempé de haute précision (forme et dimension). Sert de référence aux contrôles et mesures des longueurs.

CONT

mesure matérialisée : Dispositif destiné à reproduire ou à fournir, d'une façon permanente pendant son emploi, une ou plusieurs valeurs connues d'une grandeur donnée. [...] Exemples : [...] d) cale étalon [...]

OBS

Des cales étalons.

OBS

cale étalon : terme uniformisé par le Comité du projet de lexiques (Nouveau-Brunswick).

Spanish

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