sliding fit

British  

noun

1. Also called: push fit.  engineering a fit that enables one part to be inserted into another by sliding or pushing, rather than by hammering

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Example Sentences

The shoes or gibs should not bear hard upon the guides, but be an easy sliding fit without lost motion.

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

A double convex lens, G, is fitted in a brass tube which should have a sliding fit in another shorter and larger tube fastened to the end of the box.

From The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do by Popular Mechanics Co.

This form of key has no taper, and it is secured to the piece carried by the shaft, but is made a sliding fit in the key way of the shaft.

From An Introduction to Machine Drawing and Design by Low, David Allan

The jaws are then adjusted to fit the turned part a close sliding fit, but not a tight fit, as that would cause the jaws to score the work.

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

The Dutch so, of the other side, with consonants, that they cannot yield the sweet sliding fit for a verse.

From A Defence of Poesie and Poems by Sidney, Philip, Sir