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recuperator|rɪˈk(j)uːpəreɪtə(r)|
[a. L. recuperātor: see recuperate and -or.]
1. Rom. Law. A member of a commission for trying certain cases.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Recuperator, (among the Romans) a Commissioner or Judge appointed by the Prætor to examine private Matters; a Judge Delegate. [1753in Chambers Cycl. Supp.] 1875Poste Gaius i. (ed. 2) 53 Recuperators are judges not taken from the panel. 1880Muirhead Gaius i. §20 The council consists in Rome of five senators and five Roman knights of the age of puberty; in the provinces of twenty recuperators, Roman citizens.
2. Formerly, the regenerator of a Ponsard or Siemens furnace. Now restricted to a form of heat exchanger in which hot waste gases, being conducted continuously along a system of flues, impart heat to incoming air or gaseous fuel flowing in the opposite direction in parallel flues by conduction through the dividing walls. Cf. regenerator 2.
1884W. H. Greenwood Steel & Iron §638 The Ponsard furnace and recuperator, employed for reheating purposes in the rolling mill, has a gas producer below the floor level. 1884Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl. 746/2. 1906 A. L. J. Queneau tr. Damour's Industr. Furnaces ii. 47 Two systems are still in practice—the Siemens recuperator with inversion, and recuperation without inversion, by parallel counter currents. 1911F. W. Harbord Metallurgy of Steel II. xxi. 541 Gorman's furnace..formed a further step in advance, as the waste gases on their way to the chimney passed around horizontal fireclay pipes or ‘recuperators’. 1938H. Etherington Mod. Furnace Technol. vii. 314 In a recuperator, the hot waste gases and the cold air are led through separate channels in close contact..Regenerators operate on a different principle. 1953D. J. O. Brandt Manuf. Iron & Steel xxviii. 203 Soaking pits are of two kinds, regenerative pits, which are fired in two directions, being reversed at intervals, and recuperative which are fired in one direction only, the heat in the outgoing gases being as far as possible transferred to the incoming air and fuel in a recuperator. 1962G. R. Bashforth Manuf. Iron & Steel IV. ii. 39 In the recuperative type of soaking pit, the flow of fuel and air is maintained in one direction... The waste products of combustion pass through a recuperative chamber... These recuperators may either be of the refractory or metallic type.
3. That which restores one's health or spirits.
1905Smart Set 17 Sept. 24 a/2 (Advt.), A day trip on these steamers is calculated to brace the entire system, and the jaded business man will find them a splendid recuperator.
4. Gunnery. (See quot. 1922.)
1918E. S. Farrow Dict. Mil. Terms 498 Recuperator gauge, in artillery, a gauge for verifying the charge of the recuperator, in liquid and in compressed gas. 1922Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 1184/1 The recuperator returns the gun to the firing position after it has come to rest under the action of the recoil resistance. 1925Jrnl. R. Artillery LII. 38 The recuperator question was taken in hand early on in the war, and by the end of 1918 all springs had been replaced by air recuperators. 1962Ordnance Techn. Terminol. (U.S. Army Ordnance School) (AD 660 112) 86/1 Counterrecoil mechanism, a hydraulic, pneumatic, or mechanical system that returns a gun into battery, or firing position, after recoil; a recuperator.
Hence reˌcuperaˈtorial a.
1976J. M. Kelly Stud. in Civil Judicature of Roman Republic ii. 47 If then we discard the dominant theory, how are we to explain the special recuperatorial jurisdiction otherwise? |