"distortion" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It allows the joining of dissimilar metals, minimization of heat distortion, and can reduce the need for extensive pre-heating.
- Oxy-acetylene welding joints don't have this drawback, provided they are allowed to cool to room temperature in air, but do produce more heat distortion.
- It also, more importantly, reduces heat distortion of the surface contour, which has to be corrected on the wheel or with hammer and dolly.
- He reckoned a day's work might see the main engines functioning, thought it was impossible to say until they were on test whether there had been any heat distortion.
- There was another one five hundred metres past the first, heat distortion above the sea made it impossible to see if there was a third.
- A few meters behind Hernandez, there was a rippling effect in the air, like heat distortion.
- Now Wolf felt a ripple, something akin to the heat distortion one sees rising off a road in summer.
- Resting on the skyline of the city, the sun blazed and, although the day had barely begun, the air wavered with heat distortion.
- There was a brick chimney running up the side, and a shimmer of heat distortion against the clouds, so I knew someone was there.
- "Hard to say, sir, what with the heat distortion and ... holy cow!"
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