单词 | non-condensing |
释义 | non-condensingadj. 1. Not involving the condensation of steam; spec. designating a steam engine in which the steam on leaving the cylinder is not fed into a condenser but is either reused in some other way, or discharged into the atmosphere. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > steam engine > [adjective] > specific types atmospheric1822 single-acting1825 wind-logged1829 non-condensing1839 double-acting1842 treble-cylinder1877 quadruplex1880 uniflow1912 1839 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 2 354 Steam pressure in the boiler; load per square inch on the safety valve?—Condensing engine boilers 10 lbs per square inch, and non-condensing 35. 1856 Orr's Circle Sci.: Mech. Philos. 421 Non-condensing engines are generally of the form called beam-engines. a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. II. 1532/2 The escaping steam of non-condensing engines is usually made to heat the feed-water. In locomotives it is exhausted into the chimney to increase the draft. This was first done by Trevithick in 1802. 1949 A. C. Walshaw Heat Engines (ed. 3) ii. 22 The underside of the piston has..a through passage to exhaust which may lead into the atmosphere if the engine is non-condensing, or into a condenser. 2001 Energy Conservation & Managem. 42 1299 Conventional electric boilers and condensing/non-condensing gasfired boilers. 2. That does not undergo or cause condensation. ΚΠ 1874 Proc. Royal Soc. 1873–4 22 405 He had too large a proportion of air, or non-condensing gas, mixed with the vapour. 1956 Q. Rev. Biol. 31 192/1 The study of giant non-condensing chromosomes. 1965 Science 25 June 1723/2 Any noncondensing gas will produce cooling when bubbled through a liquid. 1982 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 79 6485 Aliquots of micrococcal nuclease..digests of 0.01 mM spermidine/ϕX174 RF II DNA were electrophoresed: 0.01 mM spermidine is noncondensing. 1994 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 444 107 A liquid is sprayed into a non-condensing gas environment. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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