Електронний багатомовний

термінологічний словник

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Engineering

Wire

1. A wire is a metal drawn out into the form of a thin flexible thread or rod.
2. A wire is a flexible strand of metal.

Wire is commonly formed by drawing the metal through a hole in a die or draw plate. Wire gauges come in various standard sizes, as expressed in terms of a gauge number.
Wires are used to bear mechanical loads, often in the form of wire rope. In electricity and telecommunications signals, a "wire" can refer to an electrical cable, which can contain a "solid core" of a single wire or separate strands in stranded or braided forms.
Usually cylindrical in geometry, wire can also be made in square, hexagonal, flattened rectangular, or other cross-sections, either for decorative purposes, or for technical purposes such as high-efficiency voice coils in loudspeakers. Edge-wound coil springs, such as the Slinky toy, are made of special flattened wire.

Sources:

Словник Webster's Dictionary https://www.merriam-webster.com/

Lexico Oxford English and Spanish Dictionary, Thesaurus, and Spanish to English Translator. www.lexico.com

Jack Ogden, 'Classical Gold wire: Some Aspects of its Manufacture and Use', Jewellery Studies, 5, 1991. p.97

Part of speech Noun
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Type Abstract
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