单词 | expansion box |
释义 | > as lemmasexpansion box expansion box n. a chamber fitted to a pipe to allow for the expansion of the liquid, gas, etc., which flows through the pipe. ΚΠ 1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 237/2 As the water warms, it rises through the pipe into the expansion box... To guard against the danger of exceeding the proper degree of heat, the expansion box is furnished with a pipe. 1939 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 43 748 The exhaust gases from a group of cylinders are discharged through a number of expansion boxes, the expansion boxes being shaped as a flattened streamline member lying in the airstream. < as lemmas |
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