Meaning of respot | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To replace a ball on its correct spot on a snooker, billiards or pool table.
2. To replace a pin to its correct position prior to a player bowling.
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.
4. To perform the final welds on a manufactured item.

Examples

“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.”

“The pins are respotted and the player bowls again.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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