What is "pistons"

Usage examples of "pistons".

Transmitted by pistons and screws and innumerable valves, the grots and gobs of intelligence bottlenecked in the limited space.

These fifty-foot-long pistons inside cylinders about twelve inches in diameter pulled slack cable off the back, or idle, side of the engine, thereby keeping the wire taut throughout the system.

There is a gap at the lop of each barrel through which a steel lattice mates the two Pistons together, and to which the shuttle on deck attaches.

Once the pistons are in battery, the aircraft is attached to the shuttle, either by a linkage on the nose gear of the aircraft in the cm of the A-6 and A-7, or by a bridle made of steel cable in the case of the F-4 and RA-5.

Then the slack in the bridle or nose-tow linkage is taken out by pushing the pistons forward hydraulically-this movement is called "taking tension.

Consequently steam pressure rising on the back of the pistons must be resisted until it has built up sufficient pressure to move the pistons forward faster than the aircraft could accelerate on its own.

Consequently the deeper the spears penetrated the higher the resistance to further entry- The brakes were SO efficient that the pistons were brought to a Complete stop after a fullPower Shot in Only nine feet of travel.

Another small jolt as the hydraulic arm shoved the cat pistons into tension, taking all the slack out of the hold-back bar, Now just the shear-bolt was holding them back.

In one corner a slum collapsing, in another a new train with pistons shining, in another a gaudy painted lady below a drab and ancient airship.

Her body had been altered for heavy labour, with pistons and pulleys giving her what looked like ineluctable strength.

In secret places among its thick trees jutted vast, obscure, forgotten machines, pistons and gears, iron trunks among the wood, rust their bark.

Its valves and pistons were swathed in rags and snatches of blankets, muffling the distinctive sound of its passage.

They gathered around him and waited, their glass lenses glinting rose in the evening, their thin pistons hissing as they moved.

The realization of crisis freed it up to be tapped: metaphasic pistons squeezed and convulsed, sending controlled spurts of the volatile energy shooting through amplifiers and transformers.

It grew dangerously hot as its pistons fought to retain control of the enormous wash of crisis energy.