单词 | dash-pot |
释义 | > as lemmasdash-pot dash-pot n. a contrivance for producing gradual descent in a piece of mechanism or for preventing vibration or sudden motion, consisting of a cylinder or chamber containing liquid in which a piston moves; a hydraulic buffer. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > absence of movement > [noun] > state of cessation of movement > arrest of motion > damping of oscillation > that which dash-pot1861 damper1929 1861 Sci. Amer. 30 Mar. 196/2 The ‘dash pot’ which Watt invented to graduate the descent of the puppet valve into its seat. 1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 666/2 To seat them without slamming, the valve-stems are provided with dash-pots. 1878 in J. Dredge Electr. Illumination (1885) II. App. p. lxiv The arm of the lever may be at right angles to the carbon, one end being weighted and the other attached to the core of a solenoid; the core may have a dash-pot action. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 86/1 The arc-lamp mechanism is provided with a dash-pot, or contrivance in which a piston moving nearly air-tight in a cylinder prevents sudden jerks in the motion of the mechanism. 1926 Brit. Standard Gloss. Terms Electr. Engin. (Brit. Engin. Standards Assoc.) 50 Dash-pot, an appliance for preventing the sudden or oscillatory motion of any moving part of a piece of apparatus, by the friction of air or of a liquid. 1930 Engineering 21 Feb. 249/2 The proper function of the piston chamber is, however, that of a dash-pot. 1931 Flight 13 Nov. 1131/2 The dashpot is double acting, and there is a powerful check to spring recoil. 1936 Gloss. Terms Railway Signalling (B.S.I.) 16 Dash pot, a cylinder with a piston valve in which the escape of air or liquid is checked by the valve to assist in lessening shock. 1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 225/1 Dash pot, a device for damping out vibration; it consists of a piston attached to the part to be damped, fitting loosely in a cylinder of oil. 1959 Times Rev. Industry Mar. 36/1 The variable feed rate for cutting is controlled by a hydraulic dashpot. 1962 Engineering 15 June 793/1 The relay trip current setting is adjustable..simply by altering vertically the position of the self-locking dashpots. < as lemmas |
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