Injector
[ɪn'dʒektə] or [ɪn'dʒɛktɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a contrivance for injecting (e.g., water into the boiler of a steam engine or particles into an accelerator etc.).
手打:蒙塔古--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) One who, or that which, injects.
(n.) A contrivance for forcing feed water into a steam boiler by the direct action of the steam upon the water. The water is driven into the boiler by the impulse of a jet of the steam which becomes condensed as soon as it strikes the stream of cold water it impels; -- also called Giffard's injector, from the inventor.
手打:萨曼莎
例句/造句/用法:
- Among other important improvements in the steam engine are those for replenishing the water in the boiler, and the Giffard Injector is the simplest and most ingenious of all boiler feeds. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The Giffard Injector takes a jet of steam from the boiler, and causes it to lift the water in an external pipe, and blow it directly into the boiler against its own pressure. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Prior to the Giffard Injector, steam boilers were supplied with water usually by steam pumps, which forced the water into the boiler against the pressure of the steam. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Fig. 83 shows the application of the injector to locomotives, which are now almost universally supplied with this device. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- That modern form of pump known as the _injector_, has many uses in the arts and manufactures. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
編輯:诺拉