| 单词 | reaction machine |
| 释义 | > as lemmasreaction machine reaction machine n. = reaction engine n.; (also) a thing that merely reacts, an automaton. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > other types of engine > [noun] > reaction reaction engine1849 reaction machine1852 reaction motor1900 1852 J. Bennett tr. J. F. d'Aubuisson de Voisins Treat. Hydraulics 446 This very year (1838), M. Combes, mining engineer, took up the theory of reäction machines [Fr. machines à réaction]. 1924 N. Wilde Ethical Basis of State iii. 46 Hobbes is a materialistic determinist, and his human nature a physical reaction machine. 1972 D. G. Shepherd Aerospace Propulsion i. 4 It should also be recognized that the propeller operates by the same basic principle... Thus all propulsion systems are reaction machines, although this is often popularly attached only to jet engines. 1991 H. H. Waggoner in E. H. Cady & L. J. Budd On Frost 29 He holds that man is man, not a reaction machine, and that value judgments in ethics, esthetics, and social philosophy are not nonsense syllables. < as lemmas |
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