Definitions for double-acting

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double-acting dou·ble-act·ing

Spelling: [duhb-uh l-ak-ting]

IPA: /ˈdʌb əlˈæk tɪŋ/

Double-Acting is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 2063 anagrams from letters in double-acting (-abcdegilnotu).

Definitions for double-acting

adjective

1. (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work in both directions, fluid being admitted alternately to opposite ends of the cylinders. Compare single-acting.
2. (of a hinge of a door or the like) permitting movement in either direction from the normal, or closed, position.
3. having twice the usual effectiveness, strength, use, etc.

Origin of double-acting

First recorded in 1835-45

Examples for double-acting

This company substituted a double-acting pump early in 1910.

double-acting steam-engine and condenser—James Watt, Scotland, 1782.

In 1780 he built a double-acting high-pressure engine with a crank, for Cooks Kitchen mine.

The new cylinder that he invented to attach to this working-frame was double-acting.

The double-acting engine, unlike the single-acting pumping engine, required a piston rod that would push as well as pull.

The above estimates must be understood as referring to double-acting steam engines above thirty-horse power.

To each crane is fixed a 10-inch cylinder, 20-inch stroke, double-acting.

Such are the chief circumstances attending the continuance of the operation of the double-acting engine.

This differs from the one just described chiefly in that it is single-acting, while the other is double-acting.

E is the steam-cylinder, and F the pump, which is seen to be double-acting.