Arfa Daily wrote in message
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"N_Cook" wrote in message
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This curious datasheet from before 1995 (telephone number 4 digit area
code)
http://www.farnell.com/datasheets/104429.pdf
uses term multi-dedent but not a common term




Surely, the word is detent with a "t", isn't it ?

Arfa



Convention does seem to be detent, I always thought it involved dents so
dedent. So where does this word detent come from , via detend? as in
detending to rotate or tent as in tenterhooks for suspending hides for
scraping to parchement etc