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Slid′ing-rule.

A scale having two graduated parts, one of which slips upon the other. The numbers are so arranged that when a given number on one scale is made to coincide with a given number on the other, the product or some other function of the two numbers is obtained by inspection. It is used for gaging and mensuration. See Gunter's scale.

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