| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Inch.[Websters]
2. To be flanged. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have thumbed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To have trifled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have footed, based or toed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To have bottomed or keeled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have chaired. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To have jotted or spotted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To have dabbed, raped or rapped.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb inch.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (inch) | 1. Advance slowly, as if by inches.[Wordnet]. 2. To drive by inches, or small degrees.[Websters]. 3. To deal out by inches; to give sparingly.[Websters]. 4. To advance or retire by inches or small degrees; to move slowly.[Websters]. 5. Base verb from the following inflections: inching, inched, inches, incher, inchers, inchingly and inchedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Having or measuring (so many) inches; as, a four-inched bridge.[Websters]. | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "INCHED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
Specialty Definition: inch
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Noun] A lineal measure in Great Britain and the United States, being the twelfth part of a foot,and equal to the length of three barley corns.. | 2: [Noun] Proverbially, a small quantity or degree; as, to die by inches, to gain ground by inches.. | 3: [Noun] A precise point of time. Beldame, I think, we watch'd you at an inch. [Unusual.]. | 4: [Verb] To drive by inches or small degrees.. | 5: [Verb] To deal out by inches; to give sparingly. [Little used.]. | 6: [Verb] To advance or retire by small degrees. Inched, is added to words of number; as four-inched. But in American the common practice is to add only inch; as a seven-inch cable.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Administration | A fall, as of rain or snow, sufficient to cover the surface to the depth of one inch (2.54 centimeters). (references) | ||
| Aerospace | Exactly 2.540 centimeters. Prior to July 1, 1959, the inch was 2.54005 centimeters although the conversion factor 2.540 has actually been in use in industry in the United States since 1933. Abbreviation in. (references) | ||
| Geography | 1: Inch is geographically located in Ireland. Its features include a locality (a minor area or place of unspecified or mixed character and indefinite boundaries), a peninsula (an elongate area of land projecting into a body of water and nearly surrounded by water), and a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 51.805833 degrees North latitude and 8.1825 degrees West longitude. (references) | 2: Inch is geographically located in United Kingdom. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 54.883333 degrees North latitude and 4.966667 degrees West longitude. (references) | |
| Law | INCH. From the Latin uncia. A measure of length, containing one-twelfth part of a foot. (references) | ||
| Mechanical Engineering | To adjust a moving machine part by small amounts, especially with the aid of a push-button control. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Public Administration | British and American unit of length equivalent to 2, 54 cm. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] (figuratively) A very short distance. "Don't move an inch!" (references) | 2: [Noun] (meteorology) The amount of water which would cover a surface to the depth of an inch, used as a measurement of rainfall. (references) | 3: [Noun] A unit of length equal to one-twelfth of a foot and equivalent to exactly 2.54 centimetres. (references) | 4: [Verb] (intransitive, followed by a preposition) To move very slowly (in a particular direction). Fearful of falling, he inched along the window ledge. (references) |
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Common Expressions: inch
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| 2.75 inch Mountain Gun | The 2.75 inch Mountain Gun was a screw gun designed for and used by the Indian Mountain Artillery into World War I. (references) | ||
| 3.7 Inch Mountain Howitzer | The 3.7 Inch Mountain Howitzer was an artillery weapon, used by British and Commonwealth armies in World War I and World War II and between the wars. (references) | ||
| 4.5 inch (114 mm) gun | The 4.5 inch (114 mm) gun was fitted to most Royal Navy ships as a medium range weapon capable of Surface, Anti-aircraft and Bombardment of Shore targets. Previously the main Destroyer gun had been the 4.7 inch (119 mm), but this had proven to be difficult to get serious elevations available for Anti-Aircraft use. (references) | ||
| Acre inch | One twelfth of an acre-foot. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Bits per inch | A measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| BL 4.5 inch Medium Field Gun | The 4.5 inch Medium Field Gun was a British artillery gun introduced at the start of the Second World War. (references) | ||
| BL 5.5 inch Medium Gun | The BL 5.5 inch Field Gun was a British artillery gun introduced during the middle of the Second World War. (references) | ||
| BL 7.2 inch Howitzer Mk.I | The BL 7.2 inch Howitzer Mk.I and subsequent marks were a series of heavy artillery pieces designed by the United Kingdom at the start of World War II. The 7.2 inch (183 mm) was not a new design, but instead a re-lined version of the 8 inch (203 mm) howitzers dating from World War I. The weapons were a stop-gap measure to meet the urgent need for heavy artillery faced by the Allies early in World War II. (references) | ||
| BL 8 inch Howitzer | The BL 8-Inch howitzer was a British artillery piece of the First and Second World Wars. (references) | ||
| British 2 inch mortar | The Ordnance SBML 2-inch Mortar, or more commonly just 2-inch Mortar, was a British mortar issued to the British Army and the Commonwealth armies that saw use during the Second World War and later. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: inch
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Assay inch | Mining | In determining the assay value of an orebody, the multiplication of its assay grade by the number of inches along which the sample was taken.CF:assay foot; assay value. (references) | |
| Bits per inch | Computing | Bits per inch | |
| Circular inch | Aerospace | The area of a circle 1 inch in diameter. (references) | |
| Column inch | Art | In newspaper and magazine publishing, the unit of measurement in which the length of an article or size of a paid advertisement is expressed, equivalent to the width of a column of type multiplied by one inch of depth. (references) | |
| Column inch | Publishing & Graphic Arts | Unit of publication space one column wide and one inch deep. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Decimal inch | Computing | A unit of typographical measure equal to an inch but displayed with subdivisions of ten instead of seven. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Dots per inch | Computing | A measure of resolution where dots are equated to pixels. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Duty of the miner's inch | Mining | The number of cubic yards of gravel that can be broken down and sent through the sluice by 1 miner's inch of water for 24 h. It depends upon the height of the bank, the character of the gravel and the bedrock, the grade of the bedrock, the type of sluice, and the pressure of the water. In well-rounded gravel without large stones, the duty of the miner's inch is from 4.5 to 6 yd3 (3.3 to 4.6 m3) of gravel for 24 h. Under less favorable conditions, the duty may range from 2.8 to 4.6 yd 3 (2.1 to 3.5 m3) for 24 h. See also: miner's inch. (references) | |
| Inch (In., in.) | Administration | - The depth to which a drainage area would be covered with water if all the runoff for a given time period was uniformly distributed on it. (references) | |
| Inch of Candle | Literature | 1: "Down were tumbled miracle and martyr, 2: (Sold by). A sale by auction. Instead of the hammer of the auctioneer concluding the bids, the purchaser was the last bidder before the candle went out. Another plan is to stick a pin in a candle, and when the pin drops down, the sale of the article is concluded. 3: Put up in lots, and sold by inch of candle." 4: Peter Pindar: Lyric Odes, xiii. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Inch of water | Mining | A unit of pressure equivalent to 0.036136 psi (248.84 Pa). (references) | |
| Inch pennyweights | Mining | In valuation of gold lodes, the product of the width of the exposure of ore, measured normal to the containing host rock, and the assay value in pennyweights of a true sample of the ore, cut evenly along the measured line. In evaluation of ore tonnages in base-metal mining, the equivalent measurement is the assay-foot or similar convenient combination across theexposed lode. Abbrev., in. dwt. (references) | |
| Miner's inch | Health | Back complaints of coal miners due to cold wet work conditions, constrained postures, and muscular strain. (references) | |
| Miner's inch | Mining | A. The rate of flow of water through an aperture 1 in (2.54 cm) square under a given pressure, generally taken to be that of water standing 6 in (15.2 cm) above the top of the aperture. It is not a universal value but is fixed by statute in several States. A commonly accepted rate is 90 ft 3 /h (2.5 m3 /h), or 1-1/2 ft3 /min (0.042 m 3 /min). CF:sluice head b. A unit used in California, around 1900, for measuring water flow in hydraulicking. It represented the outflow from a 1-in2 (6.5-cm 2 ) opening in the side of a box. It varied from 2,000 to 2,600 ft 3 /per day (56.6 to 73.6 m3 /d), according to the height of water, etc c. The term is not definite without specification of the head or pressure. It has no fixed meaning and in one locality sometimes is a very different quantity according to miner's measurement in another locality. It has been defined as the amount of water that will pass in 24 hours through anopening 1 in (2.54 cm) square under a head of 6 in. (references) | |
| Miners' Inch | Hydrologic | A rate of discharge through an orifice one inch square under a specific head. (references) | |
| Miner's inch day | Mining | Flow of 1 miner's inch for 24 hours. (references) | |
| Pound Per Square Inch Absolute | Energy | A unit of pressure [hydraulic (liquid) or pneumatic (gas)] that does not include atmospheric pressure. (psia). (references) | |
| Quarter Inch Cartridge | Computing | ||
| Tracks per inch | Computing | A unit used to measure track density in floppy disks. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Water inch | Mining | A. The discharge from a circular sharp-edged orifice 1 in (2.54 cm) in diameter with a head of one line above the top edge that is commonly estimated at 14 pints/min (6.6 L/min), and that constitutes an old unit of hydraulic measure. (references) | |
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Abbreviations & Acronyms: inch
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | ||||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field | |
| INCH | English | Institute for Contemporary History of the Orange Free State | Information, History & Folklore | |
| NPI(needles per inch) | English | Gauge | Industry | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | Top | |||
