comb

Definitions

• A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place.
• A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
• A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest.
• A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb.
• An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter.
• The top part of a gun’s stock.
• The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings.
• (music) The main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached.
• A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening soft fibre.
• A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
• The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
• The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
• One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions.
• The curling crest of a wave; a comber.
• A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis.
• (weaving) A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave.
• (algebraic geometry) A connected and reduced curve with irreducible components consisting of a smooth subcurve (called the handle) and one or more additional irreducible components (called teeth) that each intersect the handle in a single point that is unequal to the unique point of intersection for any of the other teeth.