“overhead wires”
‘3 april 2004’
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“electric circulatory systems”
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-a wire is a ‘single’ (/ usually ‘cylindrical’) / ‘flexible’ strand (or ‘rod’) of ‘metal’-
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(‘wires’ are used to bear ‘mechanical loads’ or [‘electricity’ / ‘telecommunications’] signals’)
(‘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’)
(the term wire is also used more loosely to refer to a bundle of such ‘strands’ (as in ‘multi-stranded wire’) – which is more correctly termed a ‘wire rope’ (in ‘mechanics’) or a ‘cable’ (in ‘electricity’))
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(‘wire’ comes in 3 forms…)
‘solid core’
‘stranded’
‘braided’
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[although usually ‘circular’ in ‘cross-section’, ‘wire cross-sections’ can be…]
‘square’
‘hexagonal’
‘flattened rectangular’
(among other ‘cross-section variants’)
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(either for…)
‘decorative purposes’
‘technical purposes’
(such as ‘high-efficiency voice coils’ in ‘loudspeakers’)
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(‘edge-wound coil springs’ (such as the ‘slinky toy’) are made of ‘special flattened wire’)
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