piston
IPA: pˈɪstʌn
noun
- A solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder, and moves under pressure (as in an engine) or displaces fluid (as in a pump)
- (music) A valve device in some brass instruments for changing the pitch
- A surname.
verb
- (intransitive) To move up and down or in and out like a piston.
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Examples of "piston" in Sentences
- The force exerted by the piston is increased.
- The cable is coiled in the casing on top of the piston.
- The piston is connected to the movable part of the clutch.
- The volume of the liquid causes the raising of the piston.
- The piston of a hydraulic actuator is coupled to the throttle.
- Such upward movement is enhanced by the buoyancy of the piston.
- The atomizer includes a hollow piston having a hollow piston rod.
- However, the main cause for concern was corrosion of the pistons.
- The central piston is subject to the pressure acting on the booster piston.
- The body also has pistons which cooperate with the pistons in the cylinder.
- The piston, which is very long, rubs at its upper end against the sides of the cylinder, C.
- The piston is a single casting unusually long and light, and is packed with four spring rings of 3/8 inch square brass wire.
- The type IV secretory system is an elaboration of the type II, except now the piston is a long filament, and that filament can stick to surfaces.
- As, however, the piston is the only movable part, the force of the steam is directed to that part, and the motion is then transmitted to the crank, and to the shaft of the engine.
- But Black has size on his side and keeps forcing him against the ropes, getting in short piston blows into his ribs, which seem to move with a life of their own after the first blow.
- "Johnson's right upper-cut is described as the piston of an ocean greyhound making twenty-seven knots," said the man, taking no notice of the answer, and speaking in awestruck tones.
- That style of machine for moulding candles in which the candles are forced out at the top by means of a piston is the one most employed, and it is an apparatus of this kind that we illustrate herewith.
- One part of the piston is a centrifugal piston which functions as a striking piston, whereas the other part is used for the transmission of drilling rods and compression air in order to blow clean the drilling hole.
- (enquiry) bears upon the face of it the stopping (istanai) of the stream; and the word piston (faithful) certainly indicates cessation of motion; then, again, mneme (memory), as any one may see, expresses rest in the soul, and not motion.