flange

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Flush with the flange is a flat outer ring with engraved gold-on-black tachymeter scale.

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  1. noun A protruding rim, edge, rib, or collar, as on a wheel or a pipe shaft, used to strengthen an object, hold it in place, or attach it to another object.

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  1. Possibly variant of flanch, device at the side of an escutcheon, perhaps from French flanche, feminine of flanc, side; see flank.

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  1. A later form of flanch, which is an assibilated form of flank: see flanch, flank.
  2. from flange, n.
 

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