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Casting (metalworking) — Casting iron in a sand mold In metalworking, casting involves pouring liquid metal into a mold, which contains a hollow cavity of the desired shape, and then allowing it to cool and solidify. The solidified part is also known as a casting, which… … Wikipedia
Number matching — or matching numbers is a term often used in the collector car industry to describe cars with original major components, or major components that match one another. Many times these major components contain dates, casting numbers, model numbers,… … Wikipedia
Casting out nines — is a sanity check to ensure that hand computations of sums, differences, products, and quotients of integers are correct. By looking at the digital roots of the inputs and outputs, the casting out nines method can help one check arithmetic… … Wikipedia
Number Six (Battlestar Galactica) — Number Six Battlestar Galactica character Promotional still of Number Six in season four First appearance … Wikipedia
Number 96 — Genre Soap opera Créateur(s) David Sale Production Don Cash Bill Harmon Pays d’origine Australie Chaîne d’origine … Wikipédia en Français
Casting From the Earth to the Moon — Casting the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon provided unique challenges to the producers. As the main characters were primarily historical figures, actors with physical resemblances to their characters were necessary.Jim LovellAstronaut… … Wikipedia
casting vote — ➔ vote2 * * * casting vote UK US noun [S] ► MEETINGS a single vote by the person in charge of a meeting, which is used to decide a question if the number of votes on each side is equal: »If there is a tie in the final round between the top two… … Financial and business terms
casting vote — casting votes N COUNT: usu sing When a committee has given an equal number of votes for and against a proposal, the chairperson can give a casting vote. This vote decides whether or not the proposal will be passed. The vote was tied and a local… … English dictionary
casting vote — casting .vote n [C usually singular] BrE the vote of the person in charge of a meeting, which can be used to make a decision when there is an equal number of votes supporting and opposing a proposal … Dictionary of contemporary English
Casting on (knitting) — In knitting, casting on is a family of techniques for adding new stitches that do not depend on earlier stitches, i.e., stitches having an independent lower edge. In principle, casting on is the opposite of binding off, but the techniques… … Wikipedia
