Word Meanings - TRUNKPISTON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a single-acting engine, an elongated hollow piston, open at the end, in which the end of the connecting rod is pivoted. The piston rod, crosshead and stuffing box are thus dispensed with.

• Actuation
  A bringing into action; movement.
• Dispensableness
  Quality of being dispensable.
• Elongate
  To lengthen; to extend; to stretch; as, to elongate a line.
• Hollowly
  Insincerely; deceitfully.
• Singles
  See Single, n., 2.
• Actinograph
  An instrument for measuring and recording the variations in the actinic or chemical force of rays of light.
• ACTINOMYCOSIS
  A chronic infectious disease of cattle and man due to the presence of Actinomyces bovis. It causes local suppurating tumors, esp. about the jaw. Called also lumpy jaw or big jaw. -- Ac`ti*no*my*cot"ic (#), a.
• Actinozoon
  One of the Actinozoa.
• SINGLESURFACED
  Having one surface; -- said specif. of aëroplanes or aërocurves that are covered with fabric, etc., on only one side.
• Actuator
  One who actuates, or puts into action.
• Dispensaries
  of Dispensary
• Elongation
  The act of lengthening, or the state of being lengthened; protraction; extension.
• Hollowness
  State of being hollow.
• Singlestick
  In England and Scotland, a cudgel used in fencing or fighting; a backsword.
• Actinoid
  Having the form of rays; radiated, as an actinia.
• ACTINOPHONE
  An apparatus for the production of sound by the action of the actinic, or ultraviolet, rays.
• Actinula
  A kind of embryo of certain hydroids (Tubularia), having a stellate form.
• SINGLETAX
  A tax levied upon land alone, irrespective of improvements, -- advocated by certain economists as the sole source of public revenue. Whatever may be thought of Henry George's single-tax theory as a whole, there can be little question that a relatively h
• Actress
  A female actor or doer.

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