(n.) A traversing base frame, or movable railway, along which the carriage of a barbette or casemate gun moves backward and forward. [See Gun carriage.]
Example Sentences:
(1) The RF voltage on certain parts on the chassis could be as high as 200 V. In order to reduce these voltages and the stray fields the machine should be equipped with a "large capacitive shield" in cases where this is possible.
(2) "High-tech transmission, chassis, suspension, all new interior, bucket seats, dash, 440 horsepower, 5.7-litre engine," he says, quick-fire, sounding every bit the used car salesman.
(3) These include the use of lightweight composite materials rather than steel in the chassis, and the company's plan to lease rather then sell their cars, something that removes a major financial barrier for the consumer.
(4) But the company’s carbon fibre chassis are currently manufactured abroad by a supplier.
(5) The McLaren F1 was the world’s first road car to be built with a carbon fibre chassis and every car built more recently by McLaren Automotive has the same.
(6) Once you have arranged eight blocks of drink, you hit the serve button, and the drink is mixed for you inside the chassis of an old PC; a pipe fed through the disk tray delivers the mixture into a cup.
(7) Amid the charred chassis and broken glass there is a vital point of principle to salvage: in certain conditions rioting is not just justified but may also be necessary, and effective.
(8) That’s why it is so urgent that the countries of Europe adopt very strong policies that will end the people smuggling trade across the Mediterranean.” While Hopkins was more concerned to appeal to the readership of “brilliant British truckers” who get fined if they’re caught with “feral humans” clinging to the chassis all the way from Calais, it’s only a matter of time before Abbott’s advice is taken up, and cruelty is presented as the only way to prevent further loss of life in the Med.
(9) The 5% tariff would be phased out over five years for windscreens, petrol car engines, batteries and chassis.
(10) They put the engine and the chassis together very late, in Jerez.
(11) The object reveals itself to be a monster truck painted in pastel colours, its chassis raised high above gargantuan tyres.
(12) Functional homology at the level of protein secondary structure with Actinomyces viscosus T14V type 1 fimbriae (M. K. Yeung, B. M. Chassy, and J. O. Cisar, J.
(13) In 2009 Meyer, a social psychologist at the University of Zurich, was fitted with an i-limb, a state-of-the-art bionic prosthesis developed by a Scottish company, Touch Bionics, that comes with an aluminium chassis and 24 different grip patterns.
(14) The issue of chassis leakage currents flowing through areas on the surfaces of patients' bodies is again being discussed, probably because of increasing acceptance of International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Standard 601-1, the use of more instruments with computational capability but with generally higher chassis leakage currents at the bedside, the absence of evidence that the 500-microampere chassis current limitation of IEC 601-1 has been harmful, and the lack of data to substantiate the lower limit currently applied in the United States.
(15) In the past, items such as car chassis, fridges and household goods as well as tyres and Vélib hire bikes have been retrieved.
(16) Measurement of emissions of incomplete combustion products as determined on a chassis dynamometer provides knowledge of the chemical composition of the particle-associated organics.
(17) Born in postwar rationing, the Defender feels as quintessentially British as the Queen, Churchill or Bond, among the other national icons who have been plonked atop its unbending chassis.
(18) A few yards on, an official ran a mirror underneath the chassis and a large Alsatian dog sniffed around its wheels.
(19) The fabric seat is made from 62 post-consumer recycled drink bottles and the chassis from recycled polypropylene.
(20) A new one-compartmental movable disinfectant dA-4 unit mounted on the chassis of the motor car gA3-53-12 with high technical performance is characterized by the improved layout of the equipment and can be run in the foci of infection at any time of the year.
Ejector
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses.
(n.) A jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space.
Example Sentences:
(1) And the best car – the Aston Martin DB5 with smokescreen, oil slick, front-wing machine guns and passenger ejector seat, all of which Bond employs against carfuls of henchmen in pursuit … to no avail, because he ends up totalling it and getting captured anyway.
(2) Finally, noise control techniques in the use and installation of nozzles and ejectors are reviewed.
(3) The death of Cunningham has bewildered senior RAF officers who say the ejector seat in a Hawk is almost impossible to activate accidentally, requiring considerable pressure from the pilot.
(4) Solid and traditional, all acres of dark wood and stained glass, it prides itself on its list of around 18 mainly bottled Irish beers from such breweries as Kinsale, Hilden, Station Works, Farmageddon, Clever Man (look out for its Ejector Seat turf-smoked stout) and Hercules.
(5) The accuracy of five ejector flowmeters was assessed using three different gases and four flow-rates.
(6) The gas is evacuated from the Hafnia A circuit via an ejector flowmeter.
(7) (2) Because patients may have the need to swallow during a four-minute topical application procedure, the use of a saliva ejector during the procedure is recommended.
(8) The police refused to say what recommendations they had made, but at an early inquest hearing, the officer leading the inquiry, Detective Superintendent Shaun West, confirmed he was looking specifically at why the cockpit ejector seat activated and why the parachute mechanism did not work.
(9) An efficiency rating system is presented to aid in the selection of hand held air guns, nozzles, and ejectors.
(10) This modification involves forming a vacuum chamber at the posterior extent of the custom tray to which a saliva ejector tip is embedded.
(11) In a full statement, the CPS said it had considered charges against three individuals as well as the Ministry of Defence and the defence company Martin Baker Ltd, which makes ejector seats.
(12) Prosecutors are considering whether to bring criminal charges over the death of a Red Arrows pilot killed when the ejector seat of his jet fired as the plane sat on the tarmac at an RAF base.
(13) A simple time-cycled device uses an oscillating, fluidic, bistable element to control the high-pressure oxygen, supply to the ejector of a ventilating bronchoscope.
(14) When the saliva ejector is connected to the low-volume evacuation hose, the chamber will trap any excess impression material that might extrude from the posterior border of the loaded tray.
(15) This paper describes an ejector system for AH-drivers based on the Venturi effect, which was designed for this purpose.
(16) The incident bewildered senior RAF officers who say the ejector seat in a Hawk is almost impossible to activate accidentally, requiring considerable pressure from the pilot.
(17) When the ejector-detector assembly was moved to the caudate, dopamine could only be observed following pressure ejection after perfusion of the slice with 10 microM nomifensine.
(18) By means of an ejector attachment to the endotracheal tube a negative intratracheal pressure of approx.
(19) Calibrated gas evacuation is carried out through an ejector flowmeter from the anesthetic circuit or from a closed reservoir, where the gas is collected via a relief valve.
(20) The evidence related to the failure of the parachute to open, rather than to why the ejector seat had fired in the first place.