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− | [ | + | [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] grove pit, [[cave]], from Middle Dutch ''groeve''; akin to Old High German ''gruoba'' pit, cave, [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] ''grafan'' to dig |
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==Definitions== | ==Definitions== |
Revision as of 22:27, 12 December 2020
Origin
Middle English grove pit, cave, from Middle Dutch groeve; akin to Old High German gruoba pit, cave, Old English grafan to dig
Definitions
- b : a situation suited to one's abilities or interests : niche
- 3: top form <a great talker when he is in the groove>
- 4: the middle of the strike zone in baseball where a pitch is most easily hit <a fastball right in the groove>
- 5: an enjoyable or exciting experience
- 6: a pronounced enjoyable rhythm
Description
In manufacturing or mechanical engineering a groove is a long and narrow indentation built into a material, generally for the purpose of allowing another material or part to move within the groove and be guided by it. Examples include:
- A canal cut in a hard material, usually metal. This canal can be round, oval or an arc in order to receive another component such as a boss, a tongue or a gasket. It can also be on the circumference of a dowel, a bolt, an axle or on the outside or inside of a tube or pipe etc. This canal may receive a circlip an o-ring or a gasket.
- A depression on the entire circumference of a cast or machined wheel, a pulley or sheave. This depression may receive a cable, a rope or a belt.
- A longitudinal channel formed in a hot rolled rail profile such as a grooved rail. This groove is for the flange on a train wheel.