n.
The distance through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, resulting from looseness in fitting or from wear; also, the jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.
Next Wordv. t.
To place again in possession, or in a former state; to restore to a state from which one had been removed; to instate again; as, to reinstate a king in the possession of the kingdom. →
a.
Not interested; not having any interest or property in; having nothing at stake; as, to be uninterested in any business. →
The European fifteen-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus spinachia); -- called also bismore. →