Textile Engineering Gate 2014 Questions with Answer
Ques 14 GATE 2014
A shuttle loom producing 3 up 1 down twill fabric is running at 180 picks per minute. The angular velocity of the tappet (cam) shaft in radian per second, accurate to two decimal places, would be
Ques 15 GATE 2014
During beat-up, possibility of bumping increases if
Ques 16 GATE 2014
A needle-punched nonwoven fabric has 2 mm thickness and 400 g/m² areal density. If the fibre density is 0.9 g/cm³, the volume porosity (%) of the fabric, accurate to the nearest integer, will be
Ques 17 GATE 2014
For a square plain fabric, crimp in one set of yarns would be completely removed without jamming, if the ratio of modular length (L) to the sum of the yarn diameters (D) is
Ques 18 GATE 2014
Choose the most appropriate word from the options given below to complete the following sentence.
A person suffering from Alzheimer's disease ______ short-term memory loss.
Ques 19 GATE 2014
Choose the most appropriate word from the options given below to complete the following sentence.
______ is the key to their happiness; they are satisfied with what they have.
Ques 20 GATE 2014
Which of the following options is the closest in meaning to the sentence below?
"As a woman, I have no country."
Ques 21 GATE 2014
In any given year, the probability of an earthquake greater than Magnitude 6 occurring in the Garhwal Himalayas is 0.04. The average time between successive occurrences of such earthquakes is _______ years.
Ques 22 GATE 2014
The population of a new city is 50,000. The population is increasing at 20% annually. How many years would it take to double at this growth rate?
Ques 23 GATE 2014
In a group of four children, Som is younger to Riaz. Shiv is elder to Ansu. Ansu is youngest in the group. Which of the following statements is/are required to find the eldest child in the group?
Statements:
1. Shiv is younger to Riaz.
2. Shiv is elder to Som.
Ques 24 GATE 2014
Moving into a world of big data will require us to change our thinking about the merits of exactitude. To apply the conventional mindset of measurement to the digital, connected world of the twenty-first century is to miss a crucial point. As mentioned earlier, the obsession with exactness is an artefact of the information-deprived analog era. When data was sparse, every data point was critical, and thus great care was taken to avoid letting any point bias the analysis.
From "BIG DATA" Viktor Mayer-Schonberger and Kenneth Cukier
The main point of the paragraph is:
Ques 25 GATE 2014
The total exports and revenues from the exports of a country are given in the two pie charts below. The pie chart for exports shows the quantity of each item as a percentage of the total quantity of exports. The pie chart for the revenues shows the percentage of the total revenue generated through export of each item. The total quantity of exports of all the items is 5 lakh tonnes and the total revenues are 250 crore rupees. What is the ratio of the revenue generated through export of Item 1 per kilogram to the revenue generated through export of Item 4 per kilogram?

Ques 26 GATE 2014
X is 1 km northeast of Y. Y is 1 km southeast of Z. W is 1 km west of Z. P is 1 km south of W. Q is 1 km east of P. What is the distance between X and Q in km?
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