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Ejector

Ejector \E*ject"or\, n.

  1. One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses.

  2. (Mech.) A jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space.

  3. That part of the mechanism of a breech-loading firearm which ejects the empty shell.

    Ejector condenser (Steam Engine), a condenser in which the vacuum is maintained by a jet pump. [1913 Webster] ||

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ejector

n. 1 One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses. 2 (context mechanics English) A jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space. {Ejector condenser} (steam engine), a condenser in which the vacuum is maintained by a jet pump. 3 ejector seat: a pilot's seat in an airplane that can be forcibly ejected in the case of an emergency; then the pilot descends by parachute. 4 That part of the mechanism of a breech-loading firearm which ejects the empty shell. 5 A lever for removing circuit boards from an electronic chassis.

WordNet
ejector
  1. n. a person who ousts or supplants someone else [syn: ouster]

  2. a mechanism in a firearm that ejects the empty shell case after firing [syn: cartridge ejector]

Wikipedia
Ejector (disambiguation)

May refer to:

  • Ejector or Injector, a pump-like device without moving parts
  • Steam ejector, a railway locomotive component used to create vacuum
  • Ejection seat, an escape device for aircraft
  • Ejector rack, an aircraft fitting for carrying bombs
  • Ejector (Transformers), a character from the Transformers franchise.
  • Giesl ejector, a suction draught system for steam locomotives
  • Lempor ejector, a steam locomotive exhaust system
  • Lemprex ejector, a steam locomotive exhaust system
  • Kylpor ejector, a steam locomotive exhaust system
  • Ejectment, a law term concerning recovering the possession of or title to land
  • Caterpillar 740 Ejector, an articulated hauler (dump truck)
  • Hand ejector, a specific revolver (handgun) design
  • Ejector venturi scrubber, an industrial pollution control device

Usage examples of "ejector".

Vaughn loaded the UHF satellite message buoy, roughly the size of a baseball bat, into the aft signal ejector, a small mechanism much like a torpedo tube set into the upper level of the aft compartment.

A hundred feet aft, the outer door of the signal ejector opened, and twenty seconds later a solenoid valve in a branch pipe from the auxiliary seawater system popped open, sending high-pressure seawater into the bottom of the signal ejector tube that pushed out the radio buoy.

The last few empty cartridges to jump from the ejector mechanism tinkled brassily on the rocks.

Mister Marchand installed the tear-gas ejector on the closet, he nearly set it off by mistake.

That worthy, who was evidently a true sportsman at heart, was liberally baptising with Rangoon oil an old and much rusted Martini carbine, whose ejector refused to work.

Indeed, it was a miracle of technological improvisation, with raultron-ic instruments useless for maintaining remote control over the crewless ejector.

Atkins took another calculated risk-as he began pumping out chaff once more from the left ejectors, he overrode the automatic jammers and reduced the transmitter power in half, letting a strong fighter fire control lock on the bleedthrough, then shouted, "Pilot, break right!

Sunshine was well armed as cargo ships went: one gun on each major axis and two forward, all of them plasma-cartridge ejectors with self-feed and self-clean.

The cockpit canopy blasted away, and the newly installed ejector seat flung her up through the water.

Shock waves slammed upward, nipping at Franky's heels as her ejector seat burst free of the wave tops like the cork from a shaken bottle of champagne.

The Mig went down in flames, and his ejector seat didn't work, so he opened the canopy manually and jumped out against the slipstream.

On top of the railway tracks he fits what looks like an ejector seat, stirring childhood memories of James Bond and pilots bailing out over enemy territory.

Once he removed these two and set them aside, he would have to reattach the astromech socket and its ejector seat.

This in turn, Jake reasoned, had Ally reaching for the ejector seat.

Unfortunately the Martin Baker ejector seat cannot be fitted to the single seat Vampire which is notorious for being almost impossible to bale out of, the only two successful candidates living lost their legs in the process.