displacement volume

  • 31volume — vol·ume || vÉ‘ljÉ™m / vÉ’ljuːm n. book, book forming one of a series of books; capacity, bulk, displacement; degree of loudness; quantity, amount …

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  • 32displacement — noun 1 (U) the act of forcing a group of people or animals to leave the place where they usually live 2 (singular) technical the weight or volume (1) of liquid that something such as a ship floating on it takes the place of …

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  • 33displacement hull — Naut. a hull that displaces a significant volume of water when under way. Cf. planing hull …

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  • 34swept volume — that part of the cylinder capacity that is swept by the pistons on their up and down strokes (i.e., the volume through which a piston moves in one stroke) formed by the bore diameter and the piston stroke. Also called displacement volume. See… …

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  • 35Piston displacement — Displacement Dis*place ment, n. [Cf. F. d[ e]placement.] 1. The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place. [1913 Webster] Unnecessary displacement of funds. A. Hamilton. [1913 Webster] The displacement of the sun… …

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  • 36compressor displacement — Volume, in cubic inches, represented by the area of the compressor piston head or heads multiplied by the length of the stroke …

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  • 37Capital, Volume I — is the first of three volumes in Karl Marx s monumental work, Das Kapital, and the only volume to be published during his lifetime. Originally published in 1867, Marx s aim in Capital, Volume I is to uncover and explain the laws specific to the… …

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  • 38Engine displacement — One complete cycle of a four cylinder, four stroke engine. The volume displaced is marked in orange. Engine displacement is the volume swept by all the pistons inside the cylinders of an internal combustion engine in a single movement from top… …

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  • 39Threshold displacement energy — The threshold displacement energy Td is the minimum kinetic energy that an atom in a solid needs to be permanently displaced from its lattice site to a defect position. It is also known as displacement threshold energy or just displacement energy …

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  • 40Electric displacement field — In physics, the electric displacement field, denoted as , is a vector field that appears in Maxwell s equations. It accounts for the effects of free charges within materials. D stands for displacement, as in the related concept of displacement… …

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