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Word Meanings - WHEELWORK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A combination of wheels, and their connection, in a machine or mechanism.

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  • MACHINER
    One who or operates a machine; a machinist.
  • MECHANISM
    An ideal machine; a combination of movable bodies constituting a machine, but considered only with regard to relative movements. (more info) 1. The arrangement or relation of the parts of a machine; the parts of a machine, taken collectively; the
  • COMBINATION
    The act or process of uniting by chemical affinity, by which substances unite with each other in definite proportions by weight to form distinct compounds. 4. pl. (more info) 1. The act or process of combining or uniting persons and things. Making
  • WHEELSWARF
    See SWARF
  • MACHINE
    1. In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a
  • CONNECTION
    1. The act of connecting, or the state of being connected; junction; union; alliance; relationship. He denied the possibility of a known connection between cause and effect. Whewell. The eternal and inserable connection between virtue
  • MACHINERY
    1. Machines, in general, or collectively. 2. The working parts of a machine, engine, or instrument; as, the machinery of a watch. 3. The supernatural means by which the action of a poetic or fictitious work is carried on and brought to
  • THEIR
    The possessive case of the personal pronoun they; as, their houses; their country. Note: The possessive takes the form theirs (theirs is best cultivated. Nothing but the name of zeal appears 'Twixt our best actions and the worst of theirs. Denham.
  • GRAMME MACHINE
    A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight.
  • BURRING MACHINE
    A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.
  • DISCONNECTION
    The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke.
  • GLIDING MACHINE
    A construction consisting essentially of one or more aƫroplanes for gliding in an inclined path from a height to the ground.
  • DELTA CONNECTION
    One of the usual forms or methods for connecting apparatus to a three-phase circuit, the three corners of the delta or triangle, as diagrammatically represented, being connected to the three wires of the supply circuit.
  • VICKERS-MAXIM AUTOMATIC MACHINE GUN
    An automatic machine gun in which the mechanism is worked by the recoil, assisted by the pressure of gases from the muzzle, which expand in a gas chamber against a disk attached to the end of the barrel, thus moving the latter to the rear
  • INCONNECTION
    Disconnection.
  • SLOT MACHINE
    A machine the operation of which is started by dropping a coin into a slot, for delivering small articles of merchandise, showing one's weight, exhibiting pictures, throwing dice, etc.
  • T CONNECTION
    The connection of two coils diagrammatically as a letter T, chiefly used as a connection for passing transformers. When the three free ends are connected to a source of three-phase current, two-phase current may be derived from the secondary
  • ACCOMBINATION
    A combining together.
  • RECOMBINATION
    Combination a second or additional time.
  • INTERCONNECTION
    Connection between; mutual connection.

 

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