单词 | armstrong |
释义 | Armstrongn.1 Gunnery. I. Compounds. 1. attributive and †in the genitive (obsolete). Designating a type of heavy rifled breech-loading gun with a barrel reinforced by metal bands shrunk into place around it, esp. in Armstrong gun; (also) designating armaments used with this gun. Now historical. ΚΠ 1858 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 17 Dec. 69 The introduction of those new instruments of warfare—the Enfield rifle and Armstrong's gun—had completely changed the system. 1859 Morning Post 7 Jan. 6/3 I am sorry to say the invention of Armstrong's gun will render useless almost the whole of the naval artillery. 1859 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 6 May 435/1 They might fairly be expected to be found proof to both Paixhans and Armstrong shells. 1901 Dict. National Biogr. Suppl. I. 66/2 The Elswick Ordnance Company was established solely to make Armstrong guns for the British government. 1978 K. Bonfiglioli All Tea in China x. 127 The gunner ambled towards the long brass Armstrong 68-pounder. 1992 Technol. & Culture 33 237 The relative efficiencies of a Whitworth and an Armstrong shell. 2007 J. Kinard Artillery vi. 236 Armstrong breechloaders demonstrated excellent long-range accuracy. 2. An Armstrong gun. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > other pieces of ordnance bombardc1430 ribaudequin1443 stock-gun1465 seven sistersa1529 chamber1540 bastard1545 chamber piece1547 volger1548 dogc1550 battardc1565 long shot1595 quarter piece1625 pelican1639 monkey1650 spirol1653 stock-fowler1669 saltamartino1684 smeriglio1688 botcarda1700 carriage gun1723 Lancaster1857 Armstrong1860 wire gun1860 Columbiad1861 Parrott1861 wedge-gun1876 truck-gun1883 motor cannon1889 Black Maria1914 Jack Johnson1914 supergun1915 flak1938 1860 ‘English Seaman’ Word for Truth 7 I care not for your Armstrongs or your Whitworths. 1866 J. Ruskin Crown Wild Olive ii. §60 You liked pop-guns when you were schoolboys, and rifles and Armstrongs are only the same things better made. 1876 W. S. Ross Crisis at Constantinople 20 So long as England's Armstrongs can hold that Fort against all corners, and England's Iron-Clads out-vie the proudest Armament that floats. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). Armstrongn.2 attributive. Designating a tool, method, etc., which requires or involves physical strength or exertion as opposed to mechanical assistance. Also in Armstrong's patent: a tool, machine, etc., that requires physical strength or exertion; the physical strength or exertion required. See Johnny Armstrong n. at Johnny n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1897 Amer. Engineer, Car Builder & Railroad Jrnl. Feb. 51/2 Get it into place on the car with the old-fashioned ‘armstrong’ method. 1926 G. H. Maines & B. Grant Wise-crack Dict. 5/1 Armstrong wheeler, wheelbarrow when a hobo has to use it. 1959 R. Campbell I would do It Again xxi. 136 When he got a bite, he used the armstrong hoist. 1961 F. H. Burgess Dict. Sailing 15 Armstrong's patent, any machinery that has to be worked by hand. 1971 M. Tak Truck Talk 4 Armstrong starter, a hand crank used on early trucks. 1976 New Society 5 Aug. 278/1 This was before traction engines and 'lectric motors what I'm talking about. All we had were our hands, ‘Armstrong's Patent’ we used to call it. 1994 Sports Illustr. 25 Apr. 4h/3 (advt.) You can always use the old-fashioned ‘armstrong’ method. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). Armstrongn.3 Electronics. attributive. Designating electronic circuits devised by Armstrong and used in radio engineering and broadcasting; spec. designating a circuit that performs frequency modulation on a constant-frequency carrier wave by means of phase modulation; (also) relating to or employing this method of frequency modulation. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic phenomena > electronic circuit > [noun] > other electronic circuits closed circuit1827 magnetic circuit1853 earth return1869 control circuit1892 Armstrong1916 rejector circuit1919 rejector1920 acceptor1921 biotron1921 stabilizer1924 ring modulator1936 squelch1937 load1943 multiar1946 clamp1947 integrating circuit1948 matrix1948 AND gate1959 biocircuit1963 1916 Pop. Sci. Monthly Feb. 310/1 Can the Armstrong circuit be used on wave lengths of from 150 to 3,000 meters? 1919 J. A. Fleming Thermionic Valve v. 200 The aerial can be coupled..with one coil of an oscillation transformer inserted in the grid circuit, as in the Armstrong regenerative connection. 1947 Life 17 Nov. 4/1 (advt.) Every new and proved development of radio science, genuine Armstrong FM and automatic record changing are provided for your listening pleasure. 1984 J. Dunlop & D. G. Smith Telecommunications Engin. ii. 69 The advantage of the Armstrong modulator is that the carrier is produced by a stable crystal oscillator. 1996 J. B. Hagen Radio-frequency Electronics xiii. 118 The Armstrong oscillator adds a secondary winding to the inductor to make a step-down transformer. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). > see alsoalso refers to : † arm-strongadj. < n.11858n.21897n.31916 see also |
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