movable part

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movable
adjective
uk
/ˈmuː.və.bəl/us
/ˈmuː.və.bəl/
able to ...
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part
noun
uk
/pɑːt/us
/pɑːrt/
some but not all of ...
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(Definition ofmovableandpartfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Themovablepartof the bridge is 243 ft long, while the western approach is 148 ft and the eastern approach is 530 ft.
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Themovablepart(plunger) is mounted on a flexible metal membrane that seals and maintains the vacuum.
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The toy set used during the first play session had more movable parts compared to that used during the second play session.
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They can also control their limbs remotely - they often get blown up and can still operate everymovableparteven though they are literally in a thousand pieces.
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Automobile flex when going over bumps, and vibrations cause relative motions between the relatively fixed body and movable parts like doors, windows, and sunroofs.
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While it can be documented that books with movable parts had been used for centuries, they were almost always used in scholarly works.
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Aside from movable parts, electrical relays are also used.
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The stage had settings for all new electronic possibilities including some movable parts of the stage.
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Most toys are made from one piece of wood, unless there are movable parts such as heads, arms and legs.
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They often have movable parts that allow the user to adjust the date or the wording of the stamp.
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Users can rotate and zoom in on the spacecraft, along with deploying movable parts of the spacecraft such as solar arrays, masts, and booms.
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In those days, winterization just referred to a lock-down of all movable parts as protection from winter storms.
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These included the linear homeoscope with movable parts, the linear homeoscope without movable parts, the flat homeoscope, the ideoscope, and the simple comparator.
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Unlike computerized signal controllers, electro-mechanical signal controllers are mainly composed of movable parts (cams, dials, and shafts) that control signals that are wired to them correctly.
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Airports were in need of a form of trench drainage with fewer movable parts and less tendency to collapse under heavy traffic than the traditional drainage gratings.
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In traditional stop-motion, the puppets are made with movable parts which are repositioned between frames to create the illusion of motion when the frames are played in rapid sequence.
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The latex masks were designed to fit over various movable parts on the characters' faces, permitting them a range of facial expressions, including smiling and the raising of eyebrows.
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It serves the usual functions of longitudinal stability, control and stick force requirements otherwise performed by the separate fixed and movable parts of a conventional horizontal stabilizer.
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