Single-Acting is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.
You can make 1066 anagrams from letters in single-acting (-aceggiilnnst).
First recorded in 1815-25
This differs from the one just described chiefly in that it is single-acting, while the other is double-acting.
A chain from the piston-rod to the arch head, as described in the single-acting engine, would fail to transmit this force.
The double-acting engine, unlike the single-acting pumping engine, required a piston rod that would push as well as pull.
The surface-condenser is cleared by a single-acting air-pump, inside the frame, at T.
As single-acting pumps give an intermittent discharge three are generally used on cranks at 120.
By single-acting is meant that the air cylinders compress their respective volumes of air once every revolution.
The piston will, therefore, be pressed downwards by the action of the steam above it, as in the single-acting engine.
The piston P is accurately fitted in the steam cylinder C by packing, as already described in the single-acting engine.
Each sliding platform was actuated by two single-acting rams, 3½ in.
The engine, it will be seen, is single-acting, and no compression of the explosive charge is employed.
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