The minor diameter of a nut is its inside diameter.

The minor diameter is the lower extreme diameter of the thread.

Strictly speaking the relief simply needs to be equal or slightly smaller than the minor diameter of the thread.

The thread form is slightly modified to increase the minor diameter, and thus the strength of screws and taps.

Major diameter minus minor diameter, divided by two, equals the height of the thread.

The minor diameter of a bolt can be measured with go/no-go gauges or, directly, with an optical comparator.

Distal sections of lava flows are glassy and contain minor diameter columnar joints with horizontal or nearby radiating orientations.

A complete gauging system for tapered threads may require the use of plain plug and plain ring gauges to gauge major and minor diameters.

It was estimated that average egg of Coelophysis was 31-33.5 millimeters across its minor diameter, and that each female would lay between 24-26 eggs in each clutch.

In an external (male) thread (e.g., on a bolt), the major diameter D and the minor diameter D define maximum dimensions of the thread.

A concentricity broach is a special type of spline cutting broach which cuts both the minor diameter and the spline form to ensure precise concentricity.

A toroid's capacitance is mainly a function of its major diameter, while the spark breakout voltage is mainly a function of its minor diameter.

Many deep sky objects such as galaxies and nebulas appear as non-circular, and are thus typically given two measures of diameter: Major Diameter and Minor Diameter.

There are three characteristic diameters of threads: major diameter, minor diameter, and pitch diameter: industry standards specify minimum (min) and maximum (max) limits for each of these, for all recognized thread sizes.

MINOR DIAMETER This is the diameter of an imaginary cylinder which just touches the roots of an external thread, or the crests of an internal thread.

The major and minor diameters delimit truncations on either side of the sharp V, typically about one eighth of the pitch (expressed with the notation 1/8p or .125p), although the actual geometry definition has more variables than that.

A torus of 72 inch major diameter and 27 inch minor diameter displaces about 5 pounds of atmosphere, so if the torus weighed less than 5 pounds, and was evacuated, it would be buoyant.

Record the depth and minor diameter of any circular hole, or the narrowest dimension of any non-circular opening which admitted the 5.5 mm diameter end of the finger intrusion probe but not the 10 mm diameter end of the probe.

NUT DILATION Under load, the wedging action of the threads causes dilation of the nut resulting in an increase in the minor diameter of the nut and reducing the effective shear areas of both the external and internal threads.