respot

present singular third person respots · participle present respotting · participle past respotted · past respotted

1. ball gamesTo replace a ball on its correct spot on a snooker, billiards or pool table.
2. bowlingTo replace a pin to its correct position prior to a player bowling.

   The pins are respotted and the player bowls again.

   1968, Donald Rex Casady, Marie Liba, Beginning bowling, page 29

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   Should a pin fall in removing the dead wood it must be respotted, and pins knocked over by pin or pins rebounding from any other alley must be respotted.

   1928, Louise Patterson Van Sickle, Physical Education Activities for High School Girls, page 105

3. To move a commercial or military vehicle or vehicles into a new position in order to make room for other activity or to allow the moved vehicles to be worked on.

   Sanding should be performed in conjunction with fueling to avoid respotting locomotives.

   1990, American Railway Bridge, Building Association, Proceedings, page 109

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   This method insures that the stopping of cars will not gradually fall out of tolerance with a consequent loss of time to respot.

   1963, Central Railway Club of Buffalo, Chronicle, volumes 72-76, page 79

   Cars with individual loading hatches have to be respotted several times, depending on length, and have their loading spout relocated.

   1963, Railway Purchases and Stores - Volume 56, page 27

   The Sara frantically respotted fighters for launch, even while Fletcher and Kinkaid warily tracked the suspected enemy group circling to the southwest.

   2013, John Lundstrom, Black Shoe Carrier Admiral, →ISBN

4. businessTo perform the final welds on a manufactured item.

   Up to 32 clamping robots and six welding robots can be installed in one box. Respotting of the bodies then follows in nine respotting boxes.

   2012, Koichi Shimokawa, Ulrich Jürgens, Takahiro Fujimoto, Transforming Automobile Assembly, →ISBN

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   Tack the work pieces with one spot and check for proper relative position of pieces. Sometimes the pieces can be separated and respotted if necessary.

   1966, George L. Ritchie, Electronics Construction Techniques, page 33

   Next, the body is conveyed to another special conveyor for loading the roof manually, welding the roof using robotics and fixed automation, respotting the entire body using thirty robots, and some minor operations.

   1992, Donald Gerwin, Harvey Kolodny, Management of advanced manufacturing technology

plural respots

1. An operation in which commercial or military vehicles are respotted.

   Final recovery, respot and servicing may be conducted after this period.

   1980, A Collection of Technical Papers: AIAA Aircraft Systems

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   At 0850, he directed her commanding officer, Captain Frederick C. Sherman, to ready a combat patrol, a needless order because Sherman had already begun a massive respot of the crowded flight deck to facilitate the launch of Fighting Two.

   2013, John B. Lundstrom, The First Team, →ISBN

2. businessThe final welding on a manufactured item.

   Reaching for a T- Wagon body, robots at Chrysler, Windsor, make automatic respot welds where roof bows meet body sides.

   1984, Welding Design & Fabrication - Volume 57, Issues 7-12, page 44

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   As pretacked bodies approach the automatic respot line on the body build trucks, the latches that hold them to the trucks are manually released.

   1979, William R. Tanner, Industrial Robots: Applications, page 154

   The Body Assembly plant in São Bernardo was organised in three separate production areas up to the Respot Line (final welding).

   2002, Jose E. Cassiolato, Hubert Schmitz, Hi-Tech for Industrial Development, →ISBN, page 165