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It is obvious that the split of the ring should be placed diametrally opposite to the dog set-screw.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua

If two set screws are placed diametrally opposite they will drive by the contact of their ends only, and not by reason of their inducing frictional contact between the bore and the shaft.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua

As these cutters are made solid and accurately turned in the lathe, they are balanced so long as the cutting edges are kept diametrally opposite.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua

This plan is adopted by some American engineers upon the crank pins of steam engines, the grooves being cut on diametrally opposite sides of the pin in a line with the throw of the crank.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua

Villain, call me Master Wagner, and see that you walk attentively, and let your right eye be always diametrally fixed upon my left heel, that thou mayst quasi vestigiis nostris 42 insistere.

From The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus From the Quarto of 1616 by Dyce, Alexander