What is "compressors"

Usage examples of "compressors".

Of the seven companies listed, four offered heavy equipment: lifts, loaders, backhoes, hand tools, paint sprayers, scaffolding, generators, air compressors, and related items.

But the air was filled with the steady hum of compressors, and heavy tubing ran to the airplane parts, like intravenous lines to a patient.

Five levels below the street, he stopped, was out of the perpendicular tube and across the basement ere hidden compressors ceased their sighing.

A driver was hunched over the control yoke, and as soon as the door spun shut he gunned the vehicle forward with a weaving movement that told Hamid-Jones he was in a ground effect machine, one whose compressors and fans were powerful enough to lift it from zero and set it going in seconds.