Crossword clues for supercharger
Wiktionary
n. An inlet air compressor for an internal combustion engine (either Otto or Diesel cycle), normally powered from the crankshaft.
WordNet
n. compressor that forces increased oxygen into the cylinders of an internal-combustion engine
Wikipedia
A Supercharger is any gas compressor used to pump air into the cylinders of an internal combustion engine, technically including turbocharging.
Supercharger may also refer to:
- Supercharger (album), an album by the heavy metal band Machine Head
- Starpath Supercharger is an add-on unit for the Atari 2600 video game console
- Supercharger is a Marvel Comics supervillain and a member of the Masters of Evil
- San Diego Super Chargers, fight song of an American football team
- Tesla Supercharger, fast-charge network for Tesla electric vehicles
- Skylanders SuperChargers, a video game featuring physical vehicle figurines.
Supercharger is the fourth album by the heavy metal band Machine Head. The release was ill-timed, and, as a result of little promotion, fell far short of the success of The Burning Red, which has sold about 134,000 copies in the US to date. Supercharger has sold about 45,000 copies in the US to date, making it a commercial failure.
A supercharger is an air compressor that increases the pressure or density of air supplied to an internal combustion engine. This gives each intake cycle of the engine more oxygen, letting it burn more fuel and do more work, thus increasing power.
Power for the supercharger can be provided mechanically by means of a belt, gear, shaft, or chain connected to the engine's crankshaft.
When power is provided by a turbine powered by exhaust gas, a supercharger is known as a turbosupercharger – typically referred to simply as a turbocharger or just turbo. Common usage restricts the term supercharger to mechanically driven units.
Usage examples of "supercharger".
These modified, Delux 30 Chevrolet pickups really packed a wallop he thought: Venola forged blower pistons, Crower rods, magnefluxed crankshaft, Paxton centrifugal supercharger forced induction system I A legacy of Fritz.
When the supercharger cuts in something begins to work along lines of logic I don't understand.
And then I turned hard right and rolled into fourth gear, engaging my SuperCharger.
With a hull of aluminum and magnesium alloy, two Daimler-Benz four-stroke Diesels supercharged by twin Brown-Boveri turbo superchargers, the Disco Volante could move her hundred tons at around fifty knots, with a cruising range at that speed of around four hundred miles.
Against the solemn warnings of Rolls-Royce, he had had fitted, by his pet expert at the Headquarters' motor pool, an Arnott supercharger controlled by a magnetic clutch.
The enormously expensive, hand-built Formula One racers were being forced off the track by cheap stock cars packed with store-bought superchargers and sixteen-barrel carburetors.
Their motors are equipped with auxiliary superchargers capable of cutting ascent time to less than thirty minutes.
El Gorrion has his planes equipped with special superchargers, the type used on high-altitude bombers.
That is the only sensible suggestion you have made all evening, Shasa told her in an icy fury of frustration and started the Jaguar sports car with a thunder of exhausts and superchargers that echoed through the pine forests and startled all the other couples parked in the darkness about the pseudo-Greek temple that was the memorial to Cecil John Rhodes.