interchangern.
1. One who interchanges: see the verb.
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the world > time > change > exchange > [noun] > one who exchanges
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1861 G. W. Thornbury Life J. M. W. Turner I. 398 He saw no reason why the mere interchanger of commodities should get more by them than the planter from whose land they had come.
2. A heat exchanger.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > [noun] > heat exchange or transfer > device for
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interchanger1896
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1896 A. J. Wallis-Tayler Refrigerating & Ice-making Machinery viii. 136 An interchanger was also sometimes provided, wherein the air that had done duty in the storage or cold chambers was utilised for further reducing the temperature of the compressed air.
1899 Nature 20 July 268/2 An interchanger, to make the cooling effectively self-intensive, must have one end at the higher temperature, where the compressed air enters.
1949 M. Davies Physical Princ. Gas Liquefaction vi. 86 The tubular type of interchanger carrying the compressed gas through a pipe mounted within a wider one which carries the expanded gas, is..more common..than the Hampson Spiral.
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