a low-pressure rotary compressor, esp in a furnace or internal-combustion engine
See also supercharger
3. an informal name for telephone
4. an informal name for speaking tube
5. an informal name for a whale1
6. mining
a discharge of firedamp from a crevice
blower in American English
(ˈbloʊər)
noun
1.
a person who blows
2.
any device for producing a current of air or for blowing air into a room, from a furnace, etc.
3. British, Slang
the telephone
blower in Automotive Engineering
(bloʊər)
Word forms: (regular plural) blowers
noun
(Automotive engineering: Vehicle components, Engine, transmission, and exhaust)
A blower is an exhaust turbocharger.
informal
The exhaust handling system includes a dilution air filter and a blower to induce flow.
We call them ‘blowers’ because they blow pressurized air into the engine. Technical people prefer to callthem ‘turbochargers’, though.
Even in the days of mechanical superchargers they were called ‘blowers’. It was a sort of slang that we still use to mean a modern exhaust turbocharger.
blower in Chemical Engineering
(bloʊər)
Word forms: (regular plural) blowers
noun
(Chemical Engineering: Fluids storage and transport)
A blower is a fan which can move air under pressure.
Blowers are used to provide air to certain processes.
Coke is burned in a gas producer, which is a closed furnace with controlled air supplyprovided by a blower.
A blower is a fan which can move air under pressure.
Examples of 'blower' in a sentence
blower
There is no evidence of fire in a blower motor.
The Sun (2016)
You could rake up the rubbish but a leaf blower would make much lighter work of it.
The Sun (2015)
Imagine a snowboard strapped to a leaf blower.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
All this manliness and yet we manage to come up with the daft idea of a leaf blower.
The Sun (2013)
If this continues, the moisture could damage electrical components such as the blower motor.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Anything but a leaf blower, basically.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
I tried to argue that it was a leaf blower.
The Sun (2011)
There is, in the distance, the hum of a leaf blower.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Use compressed air or blower brush all over (but not compressed air on shutter curtain).
Freeman, Michael Photographers Handbook (1993)
All related terms of 'blower'
safe-blower
a person who uses explosives to open safes and rob them
snow blower
a motor-driven machine on wheels used to remove snow by throwing it into the air and to one side
whistle blower
A whistle-blower is someone who finds out that the organization they are working for is doing something immoral or illegal and tells the authorities or the public about it.
snowblower
a snow-clearing machine that sucks in snow and blows it away to one side
glass-blowing
the process of shaping a mass of molten or softened glass into a vessel , shape, etc, by blowing air into it through a tube