Word Meanings - SUPERHEATER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An apparatus for superheating steam.

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• STEAM
  smoke, odor; akin to D. stoom steam, perhaps originally, a pillar, or 1. The elastic, aëriform fluid into which water is converted when heated to the boiling points; water in the state of vapor. 2. The mist formed by condensed vapor;
• SUPERHEAT
  To heat, as steam, apart from contact with water, until it resembles a perfect gas. (more info) 1. To heat too much, to overheat; as, to superheat an oven.
• STEAMBOAT
  A boat or vessel propelled by steam power; -- generally used of river or coasting craft, as distinguished from ocean steamers.
• STEAM ENGINE
  An engine moved by steam. Note: In its most common forms its essential parts are a piston, a cylinder, and a valve gear. The piston works in the cylinder, to which steam is admitted by the action of the valve gear, and communicates motion to the
• STEAMSHIP
  A ship or seagoing vessel propelled by the power of steam; a steamer.
• STEAMY
  Consisting of, or resembling, steam; full of steam; vaporous; misty. Cowper.
• STEAMINESS
  The quality or condition of being steamy; vaporousness; mistness.
• STEAMBOATING
  The shearing of a pile of books which are as yet uncovered, or out of boards. Knight. (more info) 1. The occupation or business of running a steamboat, or of transporting merchandise, passengers, etc., by steamboats.
• STEAMER
  The steamer duck. Steamer duck , a sea duck (Tachyeres cinereus), native of Patagonia and Terra del Fuego, which swims and dives with great agility, but which, when full grown, is incapable of flight, owing to its very small wings. Called also
• APPARATUS
  A collection of organs all of which unite in a common function; as, the respiratory apparatus. (more info) 1. Things provided as means to some end. 2. Hence: A full collection or set of implements, or utensils, for a given duty, experimental or
• SUPERHEATER
  An apparatus for superheating steam.
• TRUNK STEAMER
  A freight steamer having a high hatch coaming extending almost continuously fore and aft, but not of whaleback form at the sides.
• TURRET STEAMER
  A whaleback steamer with a hatch coaming, usually about seven feet high, extending almost continuously fore and aft.
• BUFFING APPARATUS
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