sliding fit
engineering a fit that enables one part to be inserted into another by sliding or pushing, rather than by hammering: Also called: push fit
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How to use sliding fit in a sentence
These dimensions may all have to be trimmed down somewhat to secure an easy sliding fit.
Toy Craft | Leon H. BaxterThe stud is a nice sliding fit in the slot, and the thumb nut clamps it firmly in place when in use.
Measuring Tools | UnknownThe Dutch so, of the other side, with consonants, that they cannot yield the sweet sliding fit for a verse.
A Defence of Poesie and Poems | Philip SidneyThe liner is bored out smooth and true from end to end, and the piston is turned so as to be a sliding fit to the liner.
An Introduction to Machine Drawing and Design | David Allan Low
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