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The law that states that pressure applied anywhere to a body of fluid causes a force to be transmitted equally in all directions; the force acts at right angles to any surface in contact with the fluid.
Industry:Aviation
Used to express a number as a fraction of 100. Using the percentage sign, %, 90 percent is expressed as 90%.
Industry:Aviation
Used to refer to the ease with which a magnetic flux can be established in a given magnetic circuit.
Industry:Aviation
A drawing that shows a three-dimensional object (portraying height, width, and depth) as it appears to an observer. It most closely resembles the way an object would look in a photograph.
Industry:Aviation
Composed of one long and two short evenly spaced dashes, indicates an alternate position of parts of the object or the relative position of a missing part.
Industry:Aviation
A drawing that is similar to a photograph. It shows an object as it appears to the eye, but it is not satisfactory for showing complex forms and shapes.
Industry:Aviation
A heavy metal object, cylinder- or coneshaped, with a sharp point at one end that is suspended by a string to produce a vertical reference line useful in aircraft measurements.
Industry:Aviation
