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  • 1British Standard — ˌBritish ˈStandard abbreviation BS noun [countable] a standard of quality set by the British Standards Institution * * * British Standard UK US noun [C] (ABBREVIATION BS) ► a standard of quality that is …

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  • 2British Standard Whitworth — (BSW) is one of a number of imperial unit based screw thread standards which use the same bolt heads and nut hexagonal sizes, some others being British Standard Fine thread (BSF) and British Standard Cycle. These three are collectively called… …

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  • 3British standard brass thread — British Brass Thread thread is an imperial unit based screw thread. It adopts the Whitworth thread form with a pitch of 26 threads per inch for all diameters. It is often wrongly called British Standard Brass but is not actually covered by a… …

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  • 4British standard fine thread — is a fine screw thread alternative to British Standard Whitworth thread.External links* [http://www.britishfasteners.com/threads/bsf.html Thread sizes] * [http://www.baconsdozen.co.uk/tools/spanners.htm#chart Size comparisons Whitworth/BSF/BA/AF… …

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  • 5British Standard Time — noun The time, one hour ahead of Greenwich Mean Time, used in Britain throughout the year from 1968 to 1971 • • • Main Entry: ↑British …

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  • 6British standard pipe thread — The British Standard Pipe thread (BSP thread) is a family of standard screw thread types that has been adopted internationally for interconnecting and sealing pipe ends by mating an external (male) with an internal (female) thread.TypesTwo types… …

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  • 7British standard ordnance weights and measurements — The British standard ordnance weights and measurements for the artillery were established by the Master General of Ordnance in 1764, and these were not altered until 1919Fact|date=June 2008 when the metric system was additionally introduced. This …

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  • 8British Standard Pipe — Raccord BSP Pour les articles homonymes, voir BSP. BSP ou BSPT est un type de raccord hydraulique. Il désigne en réalité la forme du filetage et la façon dont l étanchéité est faite. Dans le cas du BSP, elle est assurée par un contact cône sur… …

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  • 9British Standard Fine — (BSF) The fine screw thread used on most British vehicles before metrication. The coarse thread was British Standard Whitworth …

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  • 10British Standard Pipe — Whitworth Rohrgewinde, benannt nach Sir Joseph Whitworth, auch British Standard Pipe (BSP), ursprünglich britische Gewindeform für Rohrverschraubungen, die bei Rohrinstallationen in Europa gebräuchlich ist. Es gibt auch Feinschrauben mit… …

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