Pint

Pint pots are beer flavor jelly sweets. Each of the novelty jellies is the shape of a pint glass of beer with a dark brown translucent bottom and a white opaque head.

pint-sized

Language; Slang

Small; miniature. * I won’t fit into one of those pint-sized cars. * My car is not pint-sized. * Tell that little pintsized guy to beat it.

quart into a pint pot

Language; Idioms

(UK) If you try to put or get a quart into a pint pot, you try to put too much in a small space. (1 quart = 2 pints)

quart into a pint pot

Language; Idioms

If you try to put or get a quart into a pint pot, you try to put too much in a small space.

inductive reactance

Aviation; Aeronautics

An opposition to the flow of alternating current or changing direct current, caused by inductance in the circuit. Inductive reactance, whose abbreviation is XL, is measured in ...

interstate air transportation

Aviation; Aeronautics

The carriage by aircraft of persons or property as a common carrier for compensation or hire, or the carriage of mail by aircraft in commerce: # Between a place in a State or the ...

class of thread

Aviation; Aeronautics

A method of classifying the fit of threads used in bolts and nuts. A class-1 fit is a loose fit, a class-2 fit is a free fit, a class-3 fit is a medium fit, a class-4 fit is a ...

sonic cleaning

Aviation; Aeronautics

A method of cleaning delicate mechanical parts. The parts are placed in a sonic cleaning machine and covered with a cleaning fluid. High-intensity sound waves are produced in the ...

ultrasonic cleaning

Aviation; Aeronautics

A method of cleaning mechanical components by vibrating them at an ultrasonic frequency while soaking them in a cleaning solution.

electroplating

Aviation; Aeronautics

A method of coating one kind of metal with another. Cadmium is often plated on steel to make it corrosion resistant, and chromium can be plated on steel to make it hard and wear ...