See:upright fold
The rate of change of a quantity in the direction of the vertical.
An instrument for measuring the vertical gradient of gravity. AGI
An idler roller of about 3 in (7.6 cm) in diameter so placed as to make
contact with the edge of the belt conveyor should the latter run too much
to one side. Although vertical guide rollers are effective, they cause
edge wear on the belting and their use is not favored. Nelson
The vertical component of the magnetic field; usually considered positive
if downward, negative if upward. CF:horizontal intensity
One that is exactly upright, or it points straight up and down.
Jones, 2
A rolling mill in which the rolls are oriented vertically. Osborne
An aerial photograph made with the camera axis vertical (camera pointing
straight down) or as nearly vertical as possible in an aircraft.
AGI
This pump is often of the single-acting bucket or ram type with single or
double cylinders and either with or without a flywheel. Vertical pumps may
be used where headroom is adequate but area restricted, although
horizontal reciprocating pumps are more generally used.
Sinclair, 4
vertical reciprocating conveyor
A power or gravity-actuated unit that receives objects on a carrier or car
bed usually constructed of a power or roller conveyor. The object is then
elevated or lowered to other elevations.
a. A boring through clay or silty soil that is filled with sand or gravel
to facilitate drainage of liquid from the soil. Hammond
b. See:perched water table
A screw conveyor that conveys in a substantially vertical path.
See also:screw conveyor
An instrument that registers the vertical component of ground motion.
Schieferdecker
In a fault, the distance measured vertically between two parts of a
displaced marker such as a bed. CF:horizontal separation
A shaft sunk at an angle of 90 degrees with the horizon or directly
downward toward the center of the Earth. Weed, 2
Reference is to a beam, assumed for convenience to be horizontal and to be
loaded and supported by forces, all of which lie in a vertical plane. The
vertical shear at any section of the beam is the vertical component of all
forces that act on the beam to the left of the section. The vertical shear
is positive when upward and negative when downward. Roark
In a fault, the vertical component of the shift. See also:shift
AGI
In a fault, the vertical component of the net slip; it equals the vertical
component of the dip slip. CF:horizontal slip
Syn:vertical dip slip
A mechanism in which the takeup or the movable pulley travels in a
vertical plane. NEMA, 2
The earliest view of subsidence in which it was supposed that the lines of
break (limiting lines) were more or less vertical. Pillars left for
support were accordingly formed immediately under the object to be
protected, the question of dip being disregarded. Briggs