spiral casing

  • 1spiral casing — See volute casing …

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  • 2spiral casing — a spiral passage for directing the water from a penstock around a water turbine and into the rotor. * * * …

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  • 3spiral casing — a spiral passage for directing the water from a penstock around a water turbine and into the rotor …

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  • 4casing — [1] The outside shell of something such as the shell of an alternator or starter motor. Also see axle casing differential casing spiral casing turbine casing volute casing [2] The tire casing …

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  • 5Spiral watertube boiler — Climax boiler, arrangement of tubes from above …

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  • 6turbine — /terr bin, buyn/, n. any of various machines having a rotor, usually with vanes or blades, driven by the pressure, momentum, or reactive thrust of a moving fluid, as steam, water, hot gases, or air, either occurring in the form of free jets or as …

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  • 7Lineman's pliers — Other names combination pliers, Kleins (US/CAN) Classification hand tool Related pliers Lineman s pliers (US …

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  • 8volute — voluted, adj. volution, n. /veuh looht /, n. 1. a spiral or twisted formation or object. 2. Archit. a spiral ornament, found esp. in the capitals of the Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite orders. 3. Carpentry. a horizontal scrolled termination to… …

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  • 9fan — fan1 fanlike, adj. fanner, n. /fan/, n., v., fanned, fanning. n. 1. any device for producing a current of air by the movement of a broad surface or a number of such surfaces. 2. an implement of feathers, leaves, paper, cloth, etc., often in the… …

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  • 10Fan — /fan, fahn/, n., pl. Fans, (esp. collectively) Fan. Fang. * * * I Rigid or folding handheld device used for cooling, air circulation, or ceremony or as a sartorial accessory throughout the world from ancient times. As evidenced by Egyptian… …

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