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Definition of Disengagements
1. disengagement [n] - See also: disengagement
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disengagements
Literary usage of Disengagements
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Machinery and Millwork by William John Macquorn Rankine (1893)
"disengagements. - \ 301 The most common kind of reversing-gear which acts by ...
Amongst disengagements acting by ..."
2. Schools and Masters of Fence: From the Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century by Egerton Castle (1885)
"The four disengagements suggest four feints." These four disengagements were
nothing new. A disengagement from a low line to a high one is simply the action ..."
3. A New System of Broad and Small Sword Exercise, Comprising the Broad Sword by Thomas Stephens (1843)
"COUNTER disengagements IN OCTAVE AND SEMICIRCLE. The counter disengagements in
octave may be performed after your adversary has thrust in seconde, ..."
4. Notes and Problems on the Elements of Mechanism and the Transmission of Power by William Bradford Homer (1895)
"disengagements, as these contrivances may be called, may be classed in ...
disengagements which act by friction are to a certain extent indefinite in their ..."
5. The Popular Science Monthly (1888)
"In northern Germany, on the left bank of the Weser, the country is riddled -with
fractures which give passage to abundant disengagements of carbonic acid, ..."
6. Manual of Bayonet Exercise: Prepared for the Use of the Army of the United by George Brinton McClellan (1856)
"Two disengagements can be made from each line—into the one just above or below
it, and into that on the same level, but never into the one diagonally ..."
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