| 单词 | relighting | 
| 释义 | relightingn.  The action of relight v.; (Aeronautics) the in-flight reignition of a jet engine that has suffered a flameout (cf. relight v. 1b). ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > means of propulsion > 			[noun]		 > aircraft engine > jet engine > reignition in flight relighting1844 relight1945 1844    Times 16 Feb. 6/6  				No specific act of outrage or intimidation further than the relighting of the signal fires. 1876    ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda I.  ii. xii. 224  				The brute of a cigar required relighting. 1916    W. H. Radcliffe Pract. Electr. III. 646  				Provision for automatic relighting is made only in the automatic type of Cooper Hewitt direct-current lamp. 1936    Pop. Sci. Monthly July 49/3  				It [sc. a Bunsen burner] should be extinguished at once and adjusted properly before relighting. 1960    H. Zeffer Princ. & Pract. Aircraft Electr. Engin. xvii. 517  				Re-lighting would be necessary..where a jet engine has been stopped by an accretion of ice entering the air intake. 2008    C. Soares Gas Turbines viii. 306/1  				The jet engine requires facilities for relighting should the flame in the combustion system be extinguished during flight. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). relightingadj.  Originally: of or designating a facility for relighting a lamp, burner, etc. Now chiefly: designating a type of candle that reignites automatically after being blown out. ΚΠ 1889    Official Gaz. 		(U.S. Patent Office)	 10 Dec. 1618/2  				A relighting gas-burner attachment. 1910    V. Karapetoff Exper. Electr. Engin. 		(ed. 2)	 I. x. 238  				It [sc. the shunt magnet] closes the cut-out contacts and shunts the current around the lamp through the re-lighting coil. 1985    Business First 		(Louisville, Kentucky)	 		(Nexis)	 1 Apr. 1  				Tradition-bound jokesters can still walk into Caufield's and buy whoopee cushions, relighting candles and tins of ‘candy’ that really contain a pop-out snake. 2008    D. Davis Fresh Ideas 29  				Use a relighting candle for the Jesus candle. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < | 
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