The lateral inward inclination of an airplane when it rounds a curve.

See <<embankment>>

1. A number of similar electrical devices, such as resistors, connected together for use as a single device.

2. An assemblage of fixed contacts over which one or more wipers or brushes move in order to establish electrical connections in automatic switching.

A pipework installation in which the pipes are set parallel to each other in proximity.

1. The edge of a waterway.

2. The rising ground bordering a body of water.

3. A steep slope or face, generally consisting of unconsolidated material.

The amount of material allowed to accumulate at a point on a production line where it is not employed or worked upon, to permit reasonable fluctuations in line speed before and after the point. Also known as float.

1. The top of the shaft.

2. The surface around the mouth of a shaft.

3. The whole, or sometimes only one side or one end, of a working place underground.

4. To manipulate materials such as coal, gravel, or sand on a bank.

5. A terracelike bench in open-pit mining.

A relatively flat-topped raised portion of the sea floor occurring at shallow depth and characteristically on the continental shelf or near an island.