Pitch is the distance from the crest of one thread to the next. Because the vast majority of screw threadforms are single-start threadforms, their lead and pitch are the same. Single-start means that there is only one ridge wrapped around the cylinder of the screw's body.
Definition of metropolis. 1  1 : the chief or capital city of a country, state, or region. 2  2 : the city or state of origin of a colony (as of ancient Greece) 3  3a : a city regarded as a center of a specified activity an industrial metropolis a cattle metropolisb : a large important city one of Europe's great metropolises.
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