pantographs in English

noun
1
an instrument for copying a drawing or plan on a different scale by a system of hinged and jointed rods.
Shortly before dusk, he arrived at the Maryland State House clutching two homemade drawing instruments, a simplified camera obscura and a modified pantograph .
2
a jointed framework conveying a current to a train, streetcar, or other electric vehicle from overhead wires.
The electric part is that it uses a pantograph or roof mounted current collector to pick up electricity from the overhead catenary or wires.

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1. the geometry of different elements of the overhead contact line shall prevent pantographs short-circuiting or bridging both power systems with the arrangement of pantographs specified in point

2. - the geometry of different elements of the overhead contact line shall prevent pantographs short-circuiting or bridging both power systems with the arrangement of pantographs specified in point 4.2.2.9,

3. — the geometry of different elements of the overhead contact line shall prevent pantographs short-circuiting or bridging both power systems with the arrangement of pantographs specified in point 4.2.2.9,

4. The pantographs shall not be linked electrically in case of AC power supply systems

5. the minimum spacing between adjacent pantographs below those shown in the Table 4.2.17,

6. The pantographs shall not be linked electrically in case of AC power supply systems.

7. — the geometry of different elements of the overhead contact line shall prevent pantographs short-circuiting or bridging both power systems,

8. the geometry of different elements of the overhead contact line shall prevent pantographs short-circuiting or bridging both power systems,

9. (a) the geometry of different elements of the overhead contact line shall prevent pantographs short-circuiting or bridging both power systems;

10. the geometry of different elements of the overhead contact line shall prevent pantographs short-circuiting or bridging both power systems