| 单词 | air engine |
| 释义 | > as lemmasair engine air engine n. Mechanics a piston engine driven by heated or compressed air. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > other types of engine > [noun] > hot-air air engine1740 Stirling (or Stirling's) engine1845 caloric-engine1854 Carnot engine1937 1740 G. Nelson Wonders of Nature 60 It may as properly be call'd an Air-Engine, because the Air bears a great Part in the Operation... It draws water from the Coal-pits seventy or eighty Fathoms deep. 1807 G. Cayley in Jrnl. Nat. Philos. Dec. 261 I conceive that the form of engine here sketched will be the basis of whatever experience may prove to be additional requisite to perfection in the apparatus of the air engine. 1873 B. Stewart Conservation of Energy iv. 105 The steam-engine, the air-engine, and all varieties of heat engines. 1961 M. G. Say Electr. Engineer's Ref. Bk. (ed. 10) xviii. 12 The controller itself consists of a group of cam-operated contactors, the cam-shaft being rotated through a rack-and-pinion gear by an air engine. 2001 T. A. Heppenheimer Brief Hist. Flight ii. 27 Cayley..knew only too well that the steam engines of his day were far too heavy, and placed his hope in an alternative, the air engine. < as lemmas |
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