Mortar may refer to:
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Mortar (weapon)
A mortar today is usually a simple, lightweight, man-portable, Muzzleloader, muzzle-loaded cannon, consisting of a Smoothbore, smooth-bore (although some models use a Rifling, rifled barrel) metal tube fixed to a base plate (to spread out the r ...
, an indirect-fire infantry weapon
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Mortar (masonry)
Mortar is a workable paste which hardens to bind building blocks such as stones, bricks, and concrete masonry units, to fill and seal the irregular gaps between them, spread the weight of them evenly, and sometimes to add decorative colours or ...
, a material used to fill the gaps between blocks and bind them together
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Mortar and pestle
A mortar and pestle is a set of two simple tools used to prepare ingredients or substances by compression (physics), crushing and shear force, grinding them into a fine Paste (rheology), paste or powder in the kitchen, laboratory, and pharmacy. ...
, a tool pair used to crush or grind
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Mortar, Bihar
Mortar is a village in the Garhpura block of Begusarai district in the Indian state of Bihar about north of district capital, Begusarai. The 2011 census gives its population as 1,817. It comes under Malipur Panchayat and under post office Mali ...
, a village in India
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Manby mortar
The Manby mortar or Manby apparatus was a maritime lifesaving device originated at the start of the 19th century, comprising a mortar capable of throwing a line to a foundering ship within reach of shore, such that heavier hawsers could then be p ...
, an invention for rescuing shipwreck survivors
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Mortar methods In numerical analysis, mortar methods are discretization methods for partial differential equations, which use separate finite element discretization on nonoverlapping subdomains. The meshes on the subdomains do not match on the interface, and the ...
, discretization methods for partial differential equations
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Mortarboard
The square academic cap, graduate cap, cap, mortarboard (because of its similarity in appearance to the mortarboard used by brickmasons to hold mortar) or Oxford cap is an item of academic dress consisting of a horizontal square board fixed upo ...
, a type of headwear worn as part of academic dress
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Mortar Board
Mortar Board is an American national honor society for college juniors and seniors. It was established in 1918 in Syracuse, New York through the merger of four local women's organizations from four institutions. It started admitting men in 1975 ...
, a national honor society for college seniors
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