| 释义 |
non-conˈdensing, ppl. a.
[non- 6.]
Applied to a kind of steam-engine in which the steam on leaving the cylinder is not condensed in a condenser but is discharged into the atmosphere.
1841S. C. Brees Gloss. Civil Engin. 122 High-Pressure, or Non-Condensing Engine, an engine in which the cylinders are worked by the elastic force of the steam alone, without the aid of a vacuum. 1856Orr's Circ. Sci., Mech. Philos. 421 Non-condensing engines are generally of the form called beam-engines. 1895Mod. Steam Engine 43 Chaplin's Non-condensing Vertical-Action Steam Engine. |