Greeting fellow vocabularians,
The root word, 'fay" is ancient Scottish, meaning to have the power of
prediction. Those of you that are fay may have seen this coming.
I wonder if anticipating grounding is similar to expecting volts.
Regards,
Alan Brewster
Senior Systems Safety Engineer
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From: Price, Ed [SMTP:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 6:47 AM
To: 'EMC-PSTC List'
Subject: Faying
A couple of weeks ago, there was a thread discussing bonding
techniques for
ground studs. I suggested that MIL-B-5087 had some nice drawings
showing
typical accepted military practices. Of course, MIL-B-5087 has been
superseded by MIL-STD-464, but you can still find electronic copies
of
MIL-B-5087.
Jacob Shanker read through all of the 464 sections on Bonding, and
then
asked me if I knew what the term "faying" meant. It seems that
MIL-STD-464
uses that term without any definition, as if it's a very common
American
English word. IMHO, I consider myself to possess a rather decent
vocabulary.
But "faying" left me puzzled, even after closely reading the context
of the
several citings in MIL-STD-464. It's certainly not in any common
usage in my
part of the world. I certainly wouldn't want to call something
"faying" at
any typical US military base. So, off to the dictionary web sites.
1. Britannica says: "not found".
2. Merriam Webster says: Main Entry: fay // Pronunciation: 'fA //
Function:
verb
Etymology: Middle English feien, from Old English fEgan; akin to
Old High
German fuogen to fit, Latin pangere to fasten
Date: before 12th century : to fit or join closely or tightly
3. Harcourt's Metallurgy Engineering Dictionary says: faying surface
//
Metallurgy: the interface between two metallic parts that are to be
joined.
4. Finally, turning to Google in desperation for a simple
explanation, I
find pictures at:
http://www.offroaders.com/info/tech-corner/reading/bolt-tension/bolt_tension
.htm
So after all this searching, I find that MIL-STD-464 "faying" is
just a 12th
Century Old English way to say "facing" or "mating" surfaces. I'm
not sure
how he did it, but I suspect John Woodgate is to blame for this.
Regards,
Ed
Ed Price
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