Usually means: Operates under pressure in one direction.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. single-acting: Merriam-Webster
  2. single-acting: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. single-acting, single-acting: Collins English Dictionary
  4. single-acting: Wordnik
  5. single-acting: Wiktionary
  6. single-acting: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. single-acting: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Single-acting, single-acting: Dictionary.com
  9. Single-acting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. single-acting: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Single-acting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. single-acting: FreeDictionary.org
  13. single-acting: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (single-acting)

adjective:  (engineering) Having simplicity of action; especially acting or exerting force during strokes in one direction only; said of a reciprocating engine, pump, cylinder etc.

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