Part of a rail-car wheel

Usage examples of flange.

Boulders too heavy for anyone but Bigfoot to lift come thudding all around her in the middle of the night, torrents of summer-run steelhead the size of dogs, glowing more than glittering, abandoned logging sites, boilers and stacks and flange gears looming up out of the blackberries.

As another Blackshirt spread a dingy tablecloth across the floor by the chair I was tied to, the one with the bag drew out a thin length of rubber tubing with what appeared to be flanged steel needles at either end, and some metal clips.

I shake my traveling risers loose from my full-body harness, slide my hands over the crowded gear sling that we call a rack, find the two-bearing pulley by feel, clip it on to the riser ring with a carabiner, run a Munter hitch into a second carabiner as a friction-brake backup to the pulley brake, find my best offset-D carabiner and use it to clip the pulley flanges together around the cable, and then run my safety line through the first two carabiners while tying a short prusik sling onto the rope, finally clipping that on to my chest harness below the risers.

Meldrum went round the Doos, slipping the special silence collars over the flanges on the exhaust pipes.

Although not designed for fleetness, Leader Silverside had nevertheless made good its escape, frantically shucking missiles along the way and taking refuge in a utilities closet inside one of the flange support legs of the Nova Grade laser.

Investigation of the internal stresses, which balance the external forces, shows that most of the material should be arranged in a top flange, boom or chord, subjected to compression, and a bottom flange or chord, subjected to tension.

The horizontal stresses in the flanges are greatest at the centre of a span.

A meter below was a flange, some 20 centimeters wide, running around the tower for the benefit of the window-cleaning machines.

They climbed slippery, wet walls and flanges of black metal, until they came to the lip of the uncovered channel.

Beneath, except for other flanges, was a good 400 meters of sky terminating in some very hard-looking pavement.

Gruder touched a presspad and flanges pushed out in three directions from the head of each piton, anchoring it.

The flanges released their grip and the pitons withdrew into the mounts.

At a signal from his remote, flanges sliced out all along the central core, locking the spike in place.

He wore sword and dagger at one hip and a mace of flanges thrust through his belt at the other.

The mercie bent, and the two of them struggled to shift the plate out of the steel flange inset into the surface of the street.