Definitions for direct-acting

direct-acting di·rect-act·ing

Spelling: [dih-rekt-ak-ting, dahy-]
IPA: /dɪˈrɛktˌæk tɪŋ, daɪ-/

Direct-Acting is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 899 anagrams from letters in direct-acting (-accdegiinrtt).

Definitions for direct-acting

adjective

  1. (of a steam pump) having the steam pistons connected directly to the pump pistons without a crankshaft or flywheel.

Origin of direct-acting

First recorded in 1855-60

Examples for direct-acting

A vastly simpler form of pumping-engine without fly-wheel is the now common “direct-acting steam-pump.”

Steam was generated in forty boilers fired by furnace gas, for eight vertical, direct-acting blowing engines.

Each engine was reversed by a Brown type of direct-acting steam and hydraulic engine.

Each was fitted with a Blake, horizontal, direct-acting, vacuum pump.

direct-acting compressors are liable to center when doing work at slow speed.

Fishers carriages were driven by direct-acting engines, one cylinder on each side of the smoke-box.

In a direct-acting engine the throw of the crank is equal to the stroke of the piston.

It was worked by a pair of direct-acting engines, coupled to the crank shaft.

Ricketts later engines had spur wheels; but his last engines were direct-acting.

In larger vessels, as in yachts, in nearly all cases, the ordinary screw-engine is direct-acting.

Word Value for direct-acting
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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