Tubing
['tjuːbɪŋ] or ['tʊbɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tube
(n.) The act of making tubes.
(n.) A series of tubes; tubes, collectively; a length or piece of a tube; material for tubes; as, leather tubing.
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Examples
- This spring is surrounded its entire length by rubber tubing to deaden vibration. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- He had taken a piece of strong glass tubing fully t welve feet in length. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Along the length of the pipe were outlets to which thick rubber tubing was connected, each tube to a pump. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The framework in which the motor was placed consisted of a double hollow square of steel tubing, joined at the rear corners by steel castings and by malleable castings in front. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- When the piston is lowered, compressed air is driven through the rubber tubing, pushes open an inward-opening valve in the tire, and thus enters the tire. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- With earth-augurs, drills, and drill cleaning and clearing and fishing apparatus, and devices for creating a new flow of oil, and tubing, new forms of packing, etc. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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