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Turbine

A water wheel, commonly horizontal, variously constructed, but usually having a series of curved floats or buckets, against which the water acts by its impulse or reaction in flowing either outward from a central chamber, inward from an external casing, or from above downward, etc.; -- also called turbine wheel.

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Blade 70% connected

Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of any plant, especially of gramineous plants. The term is sometimes applied to the spire of grasses.

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A contrivance attached to some elevated object for the purpose of showing which way the wind blows; a weathercock. It is usually a plate or strip of…

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Affection noun · 78% connection

Bent of mind; a feeling or natural impulse or natural impulse acting upon and swaying the mind; any emotion; as, the benevolent affect…

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All-or-none law noun · 78% connection

(neurophysiology) a nerve impulse resulting from a weak stimulus is just as strong as a nerve impulse resulting from a strong stimulus

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Backboard noun · 78% connection

A board attached to the rim of a water wheel to prevent the water from running off the floats or paddies into the interior of the whee…

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Breasting noun · 78% connection

The curved channel in which a breast wheel turns. It is closely adapted to the curve of the wheel through about a quarter of its circu…

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Breastwheel noun · 78% connection

A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but gene…

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Bucket noun · 78% connection

One of the receptacles on the rim of a water wheel into which the water rushes, causing the wheel to revolve; also, a float of a paddl…

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Careen verb · 78% connection

To cause (a vessel) to lean over so that she floats on one side, leaving the other side out of water and accessible for repairs below…

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Construction noun · 78% connection

a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts; "the structure consisted of a series of arches"; "she wore her hair i…

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Counterbalance noun · 78% connection

A mass of metal in one side of a driving wheel or fly wheel, to balance the weight of a crank pin, etc., on the opposite side of the w…

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Course noun · 78% connection

A series of motions or acts arranged in order; a succession of acts or practices connectedly followed; as, a course of medicine; a cou…

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Crown wheel unknown · 78% connection

A wheel with cogs or teeth set at right angles to its plane; -- called also a contrate wheel or face wheel.

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Danaide noun · 78% connection

A water wheel having a vertical axis, and an inner and outer tapering shell, between which are vanes or floats attached usually to bot…

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Drag verb · 78% connection

The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the p…

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Elevator noun · 78% connection

A mechanical contrivance, usually an endless belt or chain with a series of scoops or buckets, for transferring grain to an upper loft…

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Flat noun · 78% connection

A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.

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Guide verb · 78% connection

A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the wheel buckets.

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Hurdle noun · 78% connection

An artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which men or horses leap in a race.

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Hurdy-gurdy noun · 78% connection

In California, a water wheel with radial buckets, driven by the impact of a jet.

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