| 单词 | link-motion | 
| 释义 | > as lemmaslink-motion   link-motion  n. 		 (a) Steam-engine a valve-gear for reversing the motion of the engine, etc., consisting of two eccentrics and their rods, which give motion to a slide-valve by means of a ‘link’;		 (b) Geometry a linkage in which all the points describe definite curves in the same plane or in parallel planes ( Cent. Dict.). ΚΠ 1849    J. Weale Rudim. Dict. Terms Archit.  ii. 259/2  				Link-motion, a new apparatus for reversing steam-engines. 1874    F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. vi. 168  				Starting ahead or astern is effected by link motion.  1877 [see link-structure n.].							1887    Encycl. Brit. XXII. 505/1  				In Stephenson's link-motion—the earliest and still the most usual form—the link is [etc.]. < as lemmas  | 
	
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