Autoclave: alternatives and connections

A jacket having air-tight cells, or cavities which can be filled with air, to render persons buoyant in swimming.

So tight as to be impermeable to air; as, an air-tight cylinder.

To support on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling; as, to balance a plate on the end of a cane; to balance one's self on a tight…

The French name for concrete; hence, concrete made after the French fashion.

The exhaust pipe of a steam engine, or any pipe delivering steam or air, when so constructed as to cause a blast.

A rope fastened near the middle of the leech or perpendicular edge of the square sails, by subordinate ropes, called bridles, and used…

The state of being braced or tight; tension.

A water-tight box, of timber or iron within which work is carried on in building foundations or structures below the water level.

The act or process of making seems tight, as in ships, or of furnishing with calks, as a shoe, or copying, as a drawing.

A tight receptacle or box, usually for holding gas, steam, liquids, etc.; as, the steam chest of an engine; the wind chest of an organ.

A French theory of government which holds that commune should be a kind of independent state, and the national government a confederat…

An apparatus, separate from the cylinder, in which the exhaust steam is condensed by the action of cold water or air. See Illust. of S…

a mass of steam in the end of the cylinder of a steam engine to receive the impact of the piston

The valve gearing or mechanism by which steam is cut off from entering the cylinder of a steam engine after a definite point in a stro…

The chamber of a steam engine in which the piston is moved by the force of steam.

The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston; viz., admission, s…

To make French; to infect or imbue with the manners or tastes of the French; to Gallicize.

A French mode or characteristic; an idiom peculiar to the French language.