| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To turn, shift, slew, change or twist.[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Present participle 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] | |
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Date "INCHING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (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: INCHING
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Inching starter | Mining | In one form, electrical gear that allows power to be applied gently to a stationary ball mill so as to avoid a high starting strain. The mill is said to be inched over as it begins slowly to rotate. (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 | |
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