| 单词 | reducing valve |
| 释义 | > as lemmasreducing valve reducing valve n. a valve serving to reduce and thereby regulate pressure in a steam engine, compressed air line, etc.; also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > steam engine > [noun] > parts of > valves > for reducing pressure reducing valve1863 reducer1875 1863 Newton's London Jrnl. Arts & Sci. 18 75 The sliding panel may be arranged so as to operate in conjunction with a loaded disc, or piston, or a ‘reducing valve’,..by means of which the steam is kept at a uniform or nearly uniform pressure. 1927 Harper's Mag. Oct. 637/2 He does not comprehend why pumps, reducing valves, escapes, evaporator coils and generator-engines are so complicated and costly. 1993 R. Rucker et al. Mondo 2000 (U.K. ed.) 202/1 Serotonin may be what Aldous Huxley intuited when he theorized that the brain has a ‘reducing valve’. < as lemmas |
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