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Exchanger

Exchanger \Ex*chan"ger\, n. One who exchanges; one who practices exchange.
--Matt. xxv. 27.

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exchanger

n. A person or thing that exchanges one thing for another

WordNet
exchanger

n. one whose business is to exchange the money of one country for that of another country [syn: money changer]

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Exchanger

Exchanger may refer to:

  • Digital currency exchanger, a market maker which exchanges fiat currency for electronic money
  • Exchanger (protein), an integral membrane protein that is involved in active transport of two or more different molecules or ions
  • Heat exchanger, a device built for efficient heat transfer from one medium to another
  • Pressure exchanger, a device that transfers pressure energy from a high pressure fluid stream to a low pressure fluid stream

Usage examples of "exchanger".

The huge, sleek turbopump designed to bring return coolant from the heat exchanger to the number one engine had been partly dismantled by Francis and her riggers.

Since the loss of the external heat exchangers, they’d been operating in breakeven mode, shunting their small thermal output into the emergency heat storage silo.

It was a tired looking atomic heat exchanger, simple but efficient.

The dull black heat exchangers along the upper part of the machine that provided most of its power, once it was into the searing heat of the hot wind plains, were like the squat turrets of some sinister castle.

Then Erma had to route some of the water into heat exchangers, letting it boil off to protect the rest.

One of the fusion generators was inoperative, two energy patterning nodes were dead, heat exchangers were operating dangerously short of required levels, innumerable failsoft components had been allowed to decay below their safety margins.

Emergency cryogenic exchangers vented hundreds of litres of inflamed fluid to shunt the heat out.

The exchangers transferred some of their heat along it to keep the level-one lakes warm.

The starship began to break apart, its tanks, drive tubes, tokamak toroids, energy patterning nodes, heat exchangers, and a swarm of subsidiary mechanisms forming a slowly expanding clump.

Town-sized heat exchangers and their ancillary equipment anchored to the rock crumpled, their composite components shattering like antique glass while the metal structures turned to liquid and dribbled away, scattering scarlet droplets across the stars.

The mountainous heat exchangers surrounding it were operating at their upper limit, trying to radiate away the immense thermal load imposed by overheated tubes.

We might have been able to get spares delivered for the heat exchangers and the number six forward fans by now if Captain Stupanovich had bothered to forward the requests!

Coolant was piped through the entire hull and carried back to the heat exchangers for recycling.

The heat exchangers dumped the accumulated high-temperature fluid into the engines that controlled our flight.

The crew nursed our heat exchangers along, mumbling worriedly over them more and more.