erector

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“It comes apart like a big erector set.”

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2024

The official Korean Central News Agency said Kim visited a factory that produces transport erector launchers, or TELs, without saying when he went or where the factory is.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 4, 2024

In his free time, Calleia built Meccano erector set models and made models of military equipment, bridges and machinery.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2023

He recalls how, during the building work, a steel erector made a bet with his foreman that he would be the first to drive across the bridge.

From BBC • Aug. 5, 2022

Microscopes which have a draw tube can be furnished with an erector, an instrument so called because it erects the images, which the microscope has turned upside down, through the crossing of the rays.

From Marvels of Pond-life A Year's Microscopic Recreations by Slack, Henry J.