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(of a water wheel) Having the water introduced just behind the summit, combining the advantages of breastshot and overshot systems, since the full amount of the potential energy released by the falling water is harnessed as the water descends the back of the wheel.
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(engineering, rare) A device that removes air from the system to assist with bench bleeding.
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(of a water wheel) Vertically mounted, and rotated by falling water striking buckets near the center of the wheel's edge, or just above it.
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A water wheel where the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on the float boards partly by impulse, partly by its weight.
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A type of large windlass used in drilling.
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Part of a windmill that connects the sails to the windshaft.
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(motors) The angle of rotation of a crankshaft measured from the position in which the piston is at its highest point known as top dead center (TDC).
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The part of an engine that contains the crankshaft.
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(engineering) A water wheel having a vertical axis and an inner and outer tapering shell, between which are vanes or floats attached usually to both shells, but sometimes only to one.
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A wheel with fans on its rim for producing a current of air.
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A water-powered device for catching fish that operates like a mill wheel.
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Alternative form of fish wheel [A water-powered device for catching fish that operates like a mill wheel.]
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A water wheel placed below a fall or in a chute where rapidly moving water strikes the tips of the floats.
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(US) A colored flare used as a warning on the railroad.
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A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the buckets in a water wheel.
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A rotating component in a videotape system, bearing the magnetic heads used to record and reproduce signals.
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An arrangement for lifting water, consisting of an endless belt fitted with buckets which empty as they turn over an upper wheel.
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The inner wheel of a mill.
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A water wheel with attached buckets, used to raise and deposit water.
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(of a water wheel) powered by water that flows over the top from above
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A large wheel for raising water, fixed vertically with a number of buckets at its circumference.
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A firework which forms a kind of spinning wheel.
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A wheel forming part of the machinery in a watermill, mounted on the opposite end of the axle to the waterwheel, and driving the wallower on the upright shaft or layshaft.
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(historical) A kind of undershot water wheel.
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A type of flywheel used by spacecraft to adjust their attitude without using fuel for rockets.
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(engineering) A cam keyed to a rock shaft.
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A water wheel, traditionally drawn by a draft animal, but now with a motor. It is about 2-5 meters in diameter.
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Alternative spelling of scoopwheel [A wheel, driven by wind or steam, having a series of scoops that are used to raise water]
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A wheel, driven by wind or steam, having a series of scoops that are used to raise water
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(engineering) A small cylinder, dependent on a master cylinder, that contains a piston.
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(engineering) Any other device, such as a fan or rotor, that resembles a squirrel cage in form.
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The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
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A revolving circular plate, set obliquely on its shaft, and acting as a cam to give a reciprocating motion to a rod in a direction parallel to the shaft.
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(of a water wheel) Powered by water flowing from below.
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(weaponry) One of the metal guidance or stabilizing fins attached to the tail of a bomb or other missile.
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(now historical) A water-powered spinning machine, especially of the kind invented by British industrialist Richard Arkwright.
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A wheel, propelled by running or falling water, used to power machinery.
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Alternative spelling of water wheel [A wheel, propelled by running or falling water, used to power machinery.]
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Alternative spelling of water wheel [A wheel, propelled by running or falling water, used to power machinery.]
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(uncountable, informal) Force on a pedal or increase to any fuel or power for an engine or motor.
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A Catherine wheel firework.
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The part of a mill race in which the water wheel is fixed.
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A stationary engine used to control a cable, for example to power a mining hoist at a pit head.
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(juggling) The false shower.
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(historical) A wheel driven by the wind and used to power a machine.
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Alternative form of worm gear [The gear in a worm drive.]
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A partition in a water wheel by which the form of the buckets is determined.
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A kind of undershot water wheel with characteristic curved blades.
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