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Compressor that forces increased oxygen into the cylinders of an internal-combustion engine
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supercharger
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WordNet
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n. compressor that forces increased oxygen into the cylinders of an internal-combustion engine
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A supercharger is an air compressor that increases the pressure or density of air supplied to an internal combustion engine . This gives each intake cycle of the engine more oxygen, letting it burn more fuel and do more work , thus increasing power. Power ...
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n. An inlet air compressor for an internal combustion engine (either Otto or Diesel cycle), normally powered from the crankshaft.
Usage examples of supercharger.
These modified, Delux 30 Chevrolet pickups really packed a wallop he thought: Venola forged blower pistons, Crower rods, magnefluxed crankshaft, Paxton centrifugal supercharger forced induction system I A legacy of Fritz.
When the supercharger cuts in something begins to work along lines of logic I don't understand.
And then I turned hard right and rolled into fourth gear, engaging my SuperCharger.
With a hull of aluminum and magnesium alloy, two Daimler-Benz four-stroke Diesels supercharged by twin Brown-Boveri turbo superchargers, the Disco Volante could move her hundred tons at around fifty knots, with a cruising range at that speed of around four hundred miles.
Against the solemn warnings of Rolls-Royce, he had had fitted, by his pet expert at the Headquarters' motor pool, an Arnott supercharger controlled by a magnetic clutch.
The enormously expensive, hand-built Formula One racers were being forced off the track by cheap stock cars packed with store-bought superchargers and sixteen-barrel carburetors.
Their motors are equipped with auxiliary superchargers capable of cutting ascent time to less than thirty minutes.
El Gorrion has his planes equipped with special superchargers, the type used on high-altitude bombers.
That is the only sensible suggestion you have made all evening, Shasa told her in an icy fury of frustration and started the Jaguar sports car with a thunder of exhausts and superchargers that echoed through the pine forests and startled all the other couples parked in the darkness about the pseudo-Greek temple that was the memorial to Cecil John Rhodes.