Crossword clues for reducer
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reducer \Re*du"cer\ (-s?r), n.
One who, or that which, reduces.
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(Mach.)
A contrivance for reducing the dimensions of one part so as to fit it to another, as a reducing coupling, or a device for holding a drilling a chuck.
A reducing motion.
A reducing valve.
A hydraulic device for reducing pressure and hence increasing movement, used to transmit the load from the hydraulic support of the lower shackle to the lever weighing apparatus in some kinds of heavy testing machines.
(Photog.) A reducing agent, either a developer or an agent for reducing density.
(Chem.) a reducing agent.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Something that reduces. 2 (context photography English) A liquid used in the process of develop a negative to reduce its darkness. 3 (context plumbing English) A component used to connect two pipes of different bore. 4 A hydraulic device for reducing pressure and hence increasing movement, used to transmit the load from the hydraulic support of the lower shackle to the lever weighing apparatus in some kinds of heavy testing machine.
WordNet
n. a substance capable of bringing about the reduction of another substance as it itself is oxidized; used in photography to lessen the density of a negative or print by oxidizing some of the slackened silver [syn: reducing agent, reductant]
pipefitting that joins two pipes of different diameter
Wikipedia
A reducer is the component in a pipeline that reduces the pipe size from a larger to a smaller bore (inner diameter).
The length of the reduction is usually equal to the average of the larger and smaller pipe diameters. There are two main types of reducer: concentric and eccentric reducers.
A reducer can be used either as nozzle or as diffuser depending on the mach number of the flow.
A reducer allows for a change in pipe size to meet hydraulic flow requirements of the system, or to adapt to existing piping of a different size. Reducers are usually concentric but eccentric reducers are used when required to maintain the same top-or bottom-of-pipe level.
These fittings are manufactured in inch and metric size.
Usage examples of "reducer".
You can easily find time to include exercise and activity, as well as a 2-minute meditation or other stress reducer, if you plan ahead.
Studies have found that music therapy is effective as a relaxant and anxiety reducer for infants and children and that certain music increases the ability to focus and learn.
The most consistent stress reducers that also help with depression and anger: exercising, meditating, and nurturing friendships.
Her host rattled off the names of their machines with evident pride: coagulators, masticators, reducers, degassers, acetylators, and devices for hydrogenation and polymerization.
And after emotion had done its considerable worst to Michelis' scrawl, the facsimile reducer had squeezed it all down onto a single piece of tissue for missile mail, so that only a man who knew the handwriting as well as Assyriologists know cuneiform could have deciphered the remaining ant tracks at all.
Not only was the fiber rubbery, as Boranova had said, so that it compressed slightly under the force of the collision, then rebounded, pushing the ship a trifle away -- but the slimy intercellular fluid served as a cushion and a friction reducer.