* Bonnet, engineering term for part of a valve

Bonnet is a term for a wide variety of styles of headgear for both sexes, but most often female, which has been in use from the Middle Ages to the present.

" Bonnet " is also the term for the puffy velvet fabric inside the coronet of some male ranks of nobility, and " the affair of the bonnets " was a furious controversy in the France of Louis XIV over the mutual courtesies due between the magistrates of the Parlement de Paris and the Dukes of France.

The term " Bonnet " remains in use in modern European French ( France, Belgium, Switzerland ...), but uses of " bonnet " in other languages very often do not correspond with those in English.

He and Bonnet were probably responsible for an attack off Sint Eustatius in December 1717.

Some sets are specific to a locale, or even to a single session, whilst others, like the " Coleman set " of reels (" The Tarbolton "/" The Longford Collector "/ The Sailor's Bonnet "), represent longstanding combinations that have been played together for decades.

However, in the pure Gauss – Bonnet gravity ( a modification to general relativity involving extra spatial dimensions which is sometimes studied in the context of brane cosmology ) exotic matter is not needed in order for wormholes to exist — they can exist even with no matter.

* March 20 – At an emergency meeting in London to deal with the Romanian crisis, French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet suggests to Lord Halifax that the ideal state for saving Romania from a German attack is Poland.

It used this power at least once to obtain land for Canal C-1 ( Bonnet Creek ) through land that is now being developed as the Bonnet Creek Resort, a non-Disney resort.

* October – Stede Bonnet and his crew are captured near the mouth of the Cape Fear River and taken to Charleston, South Carolina, where they are tried for piracy.

Others, such as Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet, Nicholas Brown and Edmond Condent, left the Bahamas for other territories.

These pseudonyms were usually related to the soldier's place of origin ( e. g. Jean Deslandes dit Champigny, for a soldier coming from a town named Champigny ), or to a particular physical or personal trait ( e. g. Antoine Bonnet dit Prettaboire, for a soldier prêt à boire, ready to drink ).

Deutsch was a " theoretical engineer who had a natural instinct for aerodynamics ," while Bonnet was a more " pragmatic mechanical engineer ".

Deutsch and Bonnet had been promised a works drive in the 1936 French GP for sports cars, but when this failed to materialize they set about building their own racer.

The discrete analog of curvature, corresponding to curvature being concentrated at a point and particularly useful for polyhedra, is the ( angular ) defect ; the analog for the Gauss – Bonnet theorem is Descartes ' theorem on total angular defect.

It was arranged for the former French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet to testify that " World Jewry " had been responsible for dragging France into a war with Germany.

The city is situated on the eastern edge of the large Bonnet Carré Spillway, which provides for an outlet from the Mississippi River to Lake Pontchartrain during flooding of the river.

Consider for instance the open unit disc, a non-compact Riemann surface without boundary, with curvature 0 and with Euler characteristic 1: the Gauss – Bonnet formula does not work.

Thinking of curvature as a measure, rather than as a function, Descartes ' theorem is Gauss – Bonnet where the curvature is a discrete measure, and Gauss – Bonnet for measures generalizes both Gauss – Bonnet for smooth manifolds and Descartes ' theorem.

Bonnet founded Automobiles René Bonnet, producing cars powered by Renault engines: this business was later to become part of Matra Automobiles.

Bonnet was a staunch supporter of the Munich Agreement in 1938 and was firmly opposed to taking military action against German expansion ; for the most part, he preferred to follow a course of appeasement.

As part of his effort to gain Bullitt's trust, Bonnet showed the American notes received from the British government during the Czechoslovak crisis.

In early September 1938, as part of his effort to prevent war through a mixture of threat and conciliation, Bonnet had a series of meetings with Count Welczeck, telling him that France would honor the terms of the Franco-Czechoslovak treaty should the Germans invade Czechoslovakia, while insisting that his government was quite open to a compromise solution.

Bonnet was very much in favor of the Munich conference of 30 September, which averted the war Bonnet opposed, but he was not part of the French delegation to it.

Throughout his career, Bonnet was widely respected for his intelligence but often inspired great mistrust in others, in part because of his highly secretive methods of working and his preference for verbal as opposed to written instructions.

As part of his general tendency towards seeking to weaken the French eastern alliances, Bonnet did his best to put off giving the international guarantee to Czecho-Slovakia that France had promised in the Munich Agreement.

As part of an effort to gain British support against the Italian campaign, Bonnet issued a statement that France would always rush to Britain's aid in the event of aggression, hoping that his statement might lead to a similar British statement.

During the " Romanian war scare " of March 1939, when the Romanian government, as part of an effort to enlist British support against German demands for the control of the Romanian oil industry, had the Romanian Minister in London Virgil Tilea make a series of highly misleading statements to the British government to the effect that they were under the verge of an immediate German invasion, Bonnet happened to be in London as part of the company accompanying the state visit of President Albert Lebrun.

As part of an effort to save the talks, Bonnet wrote up and presented, to both London and Moscow, the text of a joint communiqué stating to the world their determination to resist aggression and that they " agreed on the main points of the political agreement ".

In August 1939, Bonnet took up a Turkish effort of mediation between the British and the Soviets as part of an attempt to break the deadlock.

When the Anglo-Franco-Soviet talks were on the verge of breaking down in August 1939 over the issue of transit rights for the Red Army in Poland, Bonnet instructed the French Embassy in Moscow to inform the Kremlin falsely that the Poles had granted the desired transit rights as part of a desperate bid to rescue the alliance talks with the Soviets.

As part of an effort to gain British acceptance of the Italian plan, Bonnet sought to see if it were possible for the Germans to stage a " symbolic withdrawal " from Poland, only to learn from Lord Halifax that a " symbolic withdrawal " was not acceptable.

The work of careening was done, in whole or in part, by the prisoners Bonnet had captured.

Household hardware, or simply, hardware, is a general term for equipment that can be touched / held by hand such as screws, nuts, washers, keys, locks, hinges, latches, handles, wire, chains, belts, plumbing supplies, electrical supplies, tools, utensils, cutlery and machine parts.

The term smoke testing is used in several fields, including electronics, software development, plumbing, woodwind repair, infectious disease control, and the entertainment industry.

The term " water closet " was probably adapted because in the late 19th century, with the advent of indoor plumbing, a toilet displaced an early clothes closet, closets being shaped to easily accommodate the spatial needs of a commode.

The term " water closet " is still used today in some places, but it often refers to a room that has both a toilet and other plumbing fixtures such as a sink or a bathtub.

* Tapware-an industry term for that sub-category of plumbing fixtures consisting of tap valves, also called water taps ( British English ) or faucets ( American English ), and their accessories, such as water spouts and shower heads.

The advertisements are grouped into categories or classes such as " for sale — telephones ", " wanted — kitchen appliances ", and " services — plumbing ", hence the term " classified ".

Daily builds typically include a set of tests, sometimes called a smoke test ( a term origintating in plumbing, where once repairs are complete, pipes are pressurized with smoke to see if any immediately visible leaks are present ).

* Pipe dope, a slang term in plumbing for a chemical sealant applied to pipe threads to ensure a leakproof and pressure-tight seal

In plumbing, valves with such a mechanism are also often called stop valves since they don't have the global appearance, but the term stop valve may refer to valves which are used to stop flow even when they have other mechanisms or designs.

A common use of the term " air gap " in home plumbing refers to a fixture that provides back-flow prevention for an installed dishwasher.