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Brass instrument valve
Answer for the clue "Brass instrument valve ", 6 letters:
piston
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A piston is an engineering component of engines and pumps. Piston (s) may also refer to:
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Piston \Pis"ton\, n. [F. piston; cf. It. pistone piston, also pestone a large pestle; all fr. L. pinsere, pistum, to pound, to stamp. See Pestle , Pistil .] (Mach.) A sliding piece which either is moved by, or moves against, fluid pressure. It usually consists ...
Usage examples of piston.
And then the pistoliers shoot them in the head with a big gun that has a kind of a piston, goes right into the brain and comes out again, ready for the next one.
The hydraulic piston dropped, carrying the bottom bowl with it, shaking the concrete pad of the floor.
Attached at about a third of the way back was the rod which led directly down into the pump, to pull the piston there up and down.
The hinge and the piston linkage were each fastened with a nut and bolt, and appeared to have been tightened by Atlas.
While he watched, the mighty piston leaped at him, then stopped with a powerful uuuuush less than four inches from his face.
Like an airborne mote within the eerily lit bowels of that colossal imaginary mechanism, he drifted past massive walls and interconnected columns of whirling drive shafts, rattling drive chains, myriad thrusting piston rods joined by sliding blocks to connecting rods that were in turn joined by crank wrists to well-greased cranks that turned flywheels of all dimensions.
The push rod was screwed into a miniature piston head which, in turn, actuated a trio of switches.
With movements so infinitesimal that a hundred might equal the thickness of a human hair, the piston head had turned, slowly but inexorably unscrewing itself from the push rod thread.
Just as a final grain of sand will tip a scale, so, at this moment, the slightest further twisting of the piston would isolate the motor switch entirely.
Furthermore, for maximum efficiency operating speeds and temperatures whole orders of magnitude greater than the piston engine were needed.
Once the bullet had left the muzzle, the pressure in the cylinder dropped and the piston traveled backwards, forcing the remaining gas into the barrel.
Her teeth clamped lightly down on the moving piston, igniting the electricity of pain-pleasure along the rigid length.
The savage plunging ripped between her thighs like a pounding piston of pleasure.
Craning her neck, she watched as the fiery piston of pleasure drove in and out of the tight-pressed tunnel.
Again her eyes opened and her neck strained up to allow her mouth to possess the ramrodding piston of lust.