Regenerator
[ri'dʒenәreitә]
Definition
(n.) One who, or that which, regenerates.
(n.) A device used in connection with hot-air engines, gas-burning furnaces, etc., in which the incoming air or gas is heated by being brought into contact with masses of iron, brick, etc., which have been previously heated by the outgoing, or escaping, hot air or gas.
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Examples
- The wire in each disc is 1,140 feet long; and the total length of wire in the regenerator is 41? miles, or equal to the surface of four steam boilers, each 40 feet long and 4 feet diameter. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The side of the regenerator, near the working cylinder, is heated to a high temperature. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Four furnaces provided with fire-brick regenerator stoves 100 feet high and 18 feet in diameter. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The regenerator in the 60-horse engine measures 26 inches in height and width. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The expanded air forces the cylinder upwards, valves open, and it passes from the cylinder, and again enters the regenerator. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The most striking feature is the regenerator. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- All other nations were represented as incompetent and decadent; the Prussians were the leaders and regenerators of mankind. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The gas mixed with some air burns in the regenerators, and, after heating a mass of brick within the regenerators red hot, escapes by the underground passageway to the chimney on the right. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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