单词 | explosion machine |
释义 | > as lemmasexplosion machine explosion machine n. now rare (historical in later use) (a) = internal combustion engine at internal combustion n. 2; (b) an explosive device or weapon such as a missile or bomb.With quot. 1941 cf. infernal machine n. at infernal adj. 4b. ΚΠ 1822 Trans. Cambr. Philos. Soc. 1 218 (heading) Mr. Cecil on an Explosion-Machine to produce a Moving Power. 1830 J. Marshall Royal Naval Biogr. Suppl. iv. 297 He volunteered his services in a ‘catamaran’ expedition, and placed one of the explosion machines precisely as directed. a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 321/1 Explosion machine, a motor which depends for its force upon the explosion of substances generating a gas which is used under pressure in an engine or apparatus. 1941 Q. National Fire Protection Assoc. Jan. 215 Allied to the threat of fire is another threat of the saboteur, the ‘infernal’ explosion machine. 1966 B. Becker J. Verne x. 98 The explosion machine that Nadar dreamed about was first realized twenty years later in the Daimler gasoline engine. < as lemmas |
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