plumb line

See also: plumbline

English

Noun

plumb line

plumb line (plural plumb lines)

A cord with a weight attached, used to produce a vertical line; a plummet.
Any vertical reference line.

Translations

cord with a weight attached

Chinese:
Mandarin: 鉛垂線 (zh), 铅垂线 (zh) (qiānchuíxiàn)
Czech: olovnice (cs) f
Finnish: luotilanka (fi)
French: fil à plomb (fr)
German: Lot (de) n, Senkblei (de) n
Greek: αλφάδι (el) n (alfádi)

Norwegian: lodd (no)
Polish: pion (pl) m
Russian: отве́с (ru) m (otvés)
Serbo-Croatian: visak (sh) m
Spanish: plomada (es) f
Swedish: lod (sv) n, lodlina c

See also

plumb bob
plumb line on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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