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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A mounting used to support a rotating shaft, using a bearing in a two-piece housing which is bolted to a foundation or bedplate with the mounted shaft in a parallel plane to the mounting surface and perpendicular to the centre line of the mounting holes; functionally similar to a pillow block.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
From an unknown word, possibly the surname Plummer a1796, + block
