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111The Blue Air Compressor — Infobox short story | name = The Blue Air Compressor title orig = translator = author = Stephen King country = United States language = English series = genre = Short story published in = Onan Magazine (1st release), Heavy Metal publication type …
112Voitenko compressor — In 1965 a Russian scientist proposed that the shaped charge originally developed for piercing thick steel armor be adapted to the task of accelerating shock waves. The resulting device, looking a little like a wind tunnel, is called a Voitenko… …
113axial-centrifugal compressor — A combination of centrifugal and axial flow compressors in a gas turbine engine. The axial flow compressor is ahead and serves as a low pressure compressor, while the centrifugal flow compressor is in the rear and functions as a high pressure… …
114single-stage compressor — A centrifugal compressor having a single impeller wheel, with vanes either on one or on both sides of the wheel. Also, an axial flow compressor with one row of rotor blades and one row of stator blades. Axial flow compressors are normally… …
115Joy Compressor — Joy Compressors were first introduced in 1955 when the Joy Manufacturing Company hired four engineers and set them up in an office over a hardware store in Western New York. Within a short period of time, a farmer s field in Cheektowaga, New York …
116axial-flow compressor — A compressor used in gas turbine engines in which the flow of air is maintained parallel to the compressor shaft. An axial flow compressor is made up of several stages of alternate rotors and stators. The number of stages of compression… …
117high-pressure compressor — The second stage compressor in a dual spool gas turbine engine. It is called an N2 compressor. A high pressure compressor is the only one rotated by the starting system of an aircraft …
118radial compressor/radial outflow compressor — A compressor in which the airflow is radial. Air is taken to the center of the impeller and slung outward by the centrifugal force. The same as a centrifugal compressor …
119spring compressor — A tool used to restrain coil springs for safe removal and installation. They are available in a variety of shapes, as manual or hydraulic designs; the most common type consists of two steel jaws running on a threaded screw which securely hook… …
120air compressor — noun a compressor that takes in air at atmospheric pressure and delivers it at a higher pressure • Hypernyms: ↑compressor * * * air compressor, a device that pushes together, or compresses, air, and holds it under pressure, especially as a source …
