T-piece

British

noun

a strut or part shaped like a T

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If a light T-piece or so great a length of small india-rubber tube cannot be obtained, then the mouth must be removed from the pipe and the india-rubber tube slipped in when air is to be changed for gas.

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The girder, which is slightly inclined to the horizontal plane, is geometrically supported, being carried at its end, and at the extremities of the T-piece, on a V-groove, trihedral hole and plane.

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Ah well, the Subaltern thought as he halted at the joint of the T-piece, none of them felt the same about it as he himself did.

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The bottle containing the standard solution is connected with the burette by a syphon arrangement through the glass tube and T-piece.

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