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Accumulation of energyAccumulation Ac*cu`mu*la"tion, n. [L. accumulatio; cf. F.
accumulation.]
1. The act of accumulating, the state of being accumulated,
or that which is accumulated; as, an accumulation of
earth, of sand, of evils, of wealth, of honors.
2. (Law) The concurrence of several titles to the same proof.
Accumulation of energy or power, the storing of energy by
means of weights lifted or masses put in motion;
electricity stored.
An accumulation of degrees (Eng. Univ.), the taking of
several together, or at smaller intervals than usual or
than is allowed by the rules. Air engine
Air engine Air" engine`
An engine driven by heated or by compressed air. --Knight.
Alien enemyAlien Al"ien, a. [OF. alien, L. alienus, fr. alius another;
properly, therefore, belonging to another. See Else.]
1. Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or
to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign; as, alien
subjects, enemies, property, shores.
2. Wholly different in nature; foreign; adverse; inconsistent
(with); incongruous; -- followed by from or sometimes by
to; as, principles alien from our religion.
An alien sound of melancholy. --Wordsworth.
Alien enemy (Law), one who owes allegiance to a government
at war with ours. --Abbott. Ammoniacal engineAmmoniac Am*mo"ni*ac, Ammoniacal Am`mo*ni"a*cal, a.
Of or pertaining to ammonia, or possessing its properties;
as, an ammoniac salt; ammoniacal gas.
Ammoniacal engine, an engine in which the vapor of ammonia
is used as the motive force.
Sal ammoniac [L. sal ammoniacus], the salt usually called
chloride of ammonium, and formerly muriate of ammonia. Angle of entryAngle of entry An"gle of en"try (A["e]ronautics)
The angle between the tangent to the advancing edge (of an
a["e]rocurve) and the line of motion; -- contrasted with
angle of trail, which is the angle between the tangent to
the following edge and the line of motion. Armed en fluteArmed Armed, a.
1. Furnished with weapons of offense or defense; furnished
with the means of security or protection. ``And armed
host.' --Dryden.
2. Furnished with whatever serves to add strength, force, or
efficiency.
A distemper eminently armed from heaven. --De Foe.
3. (Her.) Having horns, beak, talons, etc; -- said of beasts
and birds of prey.
Armed at all points (Blazoning), completely incased in
armor, sometimes described as armed cap-[`a]-pie.
--Cussans.
Armed en flute. (Naut.) See under Flute.
Armed magnet, a magnet provided with an armature.
Armed neutrality. See under Neutrality. Armed en fluteFlute Flute (fl[=u]t), n. [Cf. F. fl[^u]te a transport, D.
fluit.]
A kind of flyboat; a storeship.
Armed en fl[^u]te(Nav.), partially armed. Ballast engineBallast Bal"last, n. [D. ballast; akin to Dan. baglast,
ballast, OSw. barlast, Sw. ballast. The first part is perh.
the same word as E. bare, adj.; the second is last a burden,
and hence the meaning a bare, or mere, load. See Bare, a.,
and Last load.]
1. (Naut.) Any heavy substance, as stone, iron, etc., put
into the hold to sink a vessel in the water to such a
depth as to prevent capsizing.
2. Any heavy matter put into the car of a balloon to give it
steadiness.
3. Gravel, broken stone, etc., laid in the bed of a railroad
to make it firm and solid.
4. The larger solids, as broken stone or gravel, used in
making concrete.
5. Fig.: That which gives, or helps to maintain, uprightness,
steadiness, and security.
It [piety] is the right ballast of prosperity.
--Barrow.
Ballast engine, a steam engine used in excavating and for
digging and raising stones and gravel for ballast.
Ship in ballast, a ship carring only ballast. Bitter endBitter Bit"ter, n. [See Bitts.] (Naut.)
AA turn of the cable which is round the bitts.
Bitter end, that part of a cable which is abaft the bitts,
and so within board, when the ship rides at anchor. Bogie engine
Bogie engine Bo"gie en"gine (Railroads)
A switching engine the running gear and driving gear of which
are on a bogie, or truck.
Bookkeeping by double entryBookkeeping Book"keep`ing, n.
The art of recording pecuniary or business transactions in a
regular and systematic manner, so as to show their relation
to each other, and the state of the business in which they
occur; the art of keeping accounts. The books commonly used
are a daybook, cashbook, journal, and ledger. See Daybook,
Cashbook, Journal, and Ledger.
Bookkeeping by single entry, the method of keeping books by
carrying the record of each transaction to the debit or
credit of a single account.
Bookkeeping by double entry, a mode of bookkeeping in which
two entries of every transaction are carried to the
ledger, one to the Dr., or left hand, side of one account,
and the other to the Cr., or right hand, side of a
corresponding account, in order tha? the one entry may
check the other; -- sometimes called, from the place of
its origin, the Italian method. Bookkeeping by single entryBookkeeping Book"keep`ing, n.
The art of recording pecuniary or business transactions in a
regular and systematic manner, so as to show their relation
to each other, and the state of the business in which they
occur; the art of keeping accounts. The books commonly used
are a daybook, cashbook, journal, and ledger. See Daybook,
Cashbook, Journal, and Ledger.
Bookkeeping by single entry, the method of keeping books by
carrying the record of each transaction to the debit or
credit of a single account.
Bookkeeping by double entry, a mode of bookkeeping in which
two entries of every transaction are carried to the
ledger, one to the Dr., or left hand, side of one account,
and the other to the Cr., or right hand, side of a
corresponding account, in order tha? the one entry may
check the other; -- sometimes called, from the place of
its origin, the Italian method. But endBut But, n. [See 1st But.]
1. A limit; a boundary.
2. The end; esp. the larger or thicker end, or the blunt, in
distinction from the sharp, end. See 1st Butt.
But end, the larger or thicker end; as, the but end of a
log; the but end of a musket. See Butt, n. Caloric engineCaloric Ca*lor"ic, a.
Of or pertaining to caloric.
Caloric engine, a kind of engine operated by heated air. Carding engineCarding Card"ing, a.
1. The act or process of preparing staple for spinning, etc.,
by carding it. See the Note under Card, v. t.
2. A roll of wool or other fiber as it comes from the carding
machine.
Carding engine, Carding machine, a machine for carding
cotton, wool, or other fiber, by subjecting it to the
action of cylinders, or drum covered with wire-toothed
cards, revoling nearly in contact with each other, at
different rates of speed, or in opposite directions. The
staple issues in soft sheets, or in slender rolls called
sivers. Chump endChump Chump, n. [Cf. Icel. kumbr a chopping, E. chop.]
A short, thick, heavy piece of wood. --Morton.
Chump end, the thick end; as, the chump end of a joint of
meat. --Dickens. Cichorium EndiviaEndive En"dive, n. [F. endive (cf. Pr., Sp. Pg., & It.
endivia), fr. a deriv. of L. intibus, intybus, endive.]
(Bot.)
A composite herb (Cichorium Endivia). Its finely divided
and much curled leaves, when blanched, are used for salad.
Wild endive (Bot.), chicory or succory. Civil engineeringEngineering En`gi*neer"ing, n.
Originally, the art of managing engines; in its modern and
extended sense, the art and science by which the mechanical
properties of matter are made useful to man in structures and
machines; the occupation and work of an engineer.
Note: In a comprehensive sense, engineering includes
architecture as a mechanical art, in distinction from
architecture as a fine art. It was formerly divided
into military engineering, which is the art of
designing and constructing offensive and defensive
works, and civil engineering, in a broad sense, as
relating to other kinds of public works, machinery,
etc.
Civil engineering, in modern usage, is strictly the art of
planning, laying out, and constructing fixed public works,
such as railroads, highways, canals, aqueducts, water
works, bridges, lighthouses, docks, embankments,
breakwaters, dams, tunnels, etc.
Mechanical engineering relates to machinery, such as steam
engines, machine tools, mill work, etc.
Mining engineering deals with the excavation and working of
mines, and the extraction of metals from their ores, etc.
Engineering is further divided into steam engineering, gas
engineering, agricultural engineering, topographical
engineering, electrical engineering, etc. Compound engineCompound Com"pound, a. [OE. compouned, p. p. of compounen. See
Compound, v. t.]
Composed of two or more elements, ingredients, parts;
produced by the union of several ingredients, parts, or
things; composite; as, a compound word.
Compound substances are made up of two or more simple
substances. --I. Watts.
Compound addition, subtraction, multiplication,
division (Arith.), the addition, subtraction, etc., of
compound numbers.
Compound crystal (Crystallog.), a twin crystal, or one
seeming to be made up of two or more crystals combined
according to regular laws of composition.
Compound engine (Mech.), a form of steam engine in which
the steam that has been used in a high-pressure cylinder
is made to do further service in a larger low-pressure
cylinder, sometimes in several larger cylinders,
successively.
Compound ether. (Chem.) See under Ether.
Compound flower (Bot.), a flower head resembling a single
flower, but really composed of several florets inclosed in
a common calyxlike involucre, as the sunflower or
dandelion.
Compound fraction. (Math.) See Fraction.
Compound fracture. See Fracture.
Compound householder, a householder who compounds or
arranges with his landlord that his rates shall be
included in his rents. [Eng.]
Compound interest. See Interest.
Compound larceny. (Law) See Larceny.
Compound leaf (Bot.), a leaf having two or more separate
blades or leaflets on a common leafstalk.
Compound microscope. See Microscope.
Compound motion. See Motion.
Compound number (Math.), one constructed according to a
varying scale of denomination; as, 3 cwt., 1 qr., 5 lb.;
-- called also denominate number.
Compound pier (Arch.), a clustered column.
Compound quantity (Alg.), a quantity composed of two or
more simple quantities or terms, connected by the sign +
(plus) or - (minus). Thus, a + b - c, and bb - b, are
compound quantities.
Compound radical. (Chem.) See Radical.
Compound ratio (Math.), the product of two or more ratios;
thus ab:cd is a ratio compounded of the simple ratios a:c
and b:d.
Compound rest (Mech.), the tool carriage of an engine
lathe.
Compound screw (Mech.), a screw having on the same axis two
or more screws with different pitch (a differential
screw), or running in different directions (a right and
left screw).
Compound time (Mus.), that in which two or more simple
measures are combined in one; as, 6-8 time is the joining
of two measures of 3-8 time.
Compound word, a word composed of two or more words;
specifically, two or more words joined together by a
hyphen. Compressed-air engineCompressed Com*pressed", a.
1. Pressed together; compacted; reduced in volume by
pressure.
2. (Bot.) Flattened lengthwise.
Compressed-air engine, an engine operated by the elastic
force of compressed air. Condensing engineCondense Con*dense", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Condensed; p. pr. &
vb. n. Condensing.] [L. condensare; con- + densare to make
thick or dense, densus thick, dense: cf. F. condenser. See
Dense, and cf. Condensate.]
1. To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or
concentrate into a smaller compass; to consolidate; to
abridge; to epitomize.
In what shape they choose, Dilated or condensed,
bright or obscure. --Milton.
The secret course pursued at Brussels and at Madrid
may be condensed into the usual formula,
dissimulation, procrastination, and again
dissimulation. --Motley.
2. (Chem. & Physics) To reduce into another and denser form,
as by cold or pressure; as, to condense gas into a liquid
form, or steam into water.
Condensed milk, milk reduced to the consistence of very
thick cream by evaporation (usually with addition of
sugar) for preservation and transportation.
Condensing engine, a steam engine in which the steam is
condensed after having exerted its force on the piston.
Syn: To compress; contract; crowd; thicken; concentrate;
abridge; epitomize; reduce. Conservation of energyConservation Con`ser*va"tion, n. [L. conservatio: cf. F.
conservation.]
The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping
(of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.
A step necessary for the conservation of Protestantism.
--Hallam.
A state without the means of some change is without the
means of its conservation. --Burke.
Conservation of areas (Astron.), the principle that the
radius vector drawn from a planet to the sun sweeps over
equal areas in equal times.
Conservation of energy, or Conservation of force (Mech.),
the principle that the total energy of any material system
is a quantity which can neither be increased nor
diminished by any action between the parts of the system,
though it may be transformed into any of the forms of
which energy is susceptible. --Clerk Maxwell. Cornish engineCornish Cor"nish (k?r"n?sh), a.
Of or pertaining to Cornwall, in England.
Cornish chough. See Chough.
Cornish engine, a single-acting pumping engine, used in
mines, in Cornwall and elsewhere, and for water works. A
heavy pump rod or plunger, raised by the steam, forces up
the water by its weight, in descending. Corps of Engineers
Corps of Engineers Corps of Engineers, a corps of officers and
enlisted men consisting of one band and three battalions of
engineers commanded by a brigadier general, whose title is
Chief of Engineers. It has charge of the construction of
fortifications for land and seacoast defense, the improvement
of rivers and harbors, the construction of lighthouses, etc.,
and, in time of war, supervises the engineering operations of
the armies in the field.
(b) In the United States navy, a corps made up of the
engineers, which was amalgamated with the line by act of
March 3, 1899. It consisted of assistant and passed
assistant engineers, ranking with ensigns and
lieutenants, chief engineers, ranking from lieutenant to
captain, and engineer in chief, ranking with commodore
and having charge of the Bureau of Steam Engineering.
Cycloidal engineCycloidal Cy*cloid"al (-al), a.
Pertaining to, or resembling, a cycloid; as, the cycloidal
space is the space contained between a cycloid and its base.
Cycloidal engine. See Geometric lathe. Cylinder engineCylinder Cyl"in*der (s?l"?n-d?r), n. [F. cylindre, OF.
cilindre, L. cylindrus, fr. Gr. ky`lindros, fr. kyli`ndein,
kyli`ein, to roll. Cf. Calender the machine.]
1. (Geom.)
(a) A solid body which may be generated by the rotation of
a parallelogram round one its sides; or a body of
rollerlike form, of which the longitudinal section is
oblong, and the cross section is circular.
(b) The space inclosed by any cylindrical surface. The
space may be limited or unlimited in length.
2. Any hollow body of cylindrical form, as:
(a) The chamber of a steam engine in which the piston is
moved by the force of steam.
(b) The barrel of an air or other pump.
(c) (Print.) The revolving platen or bed which produces
the impression or carries the type in a cylinder
press.
(d) The bore of a gun; the turning chambered breech of a
revolver.
3. The revolving square prism carrying the cards in a
Jacquard loom.
Cylinder axis. (Anat.) See Axis cylinder, under Axis.
Cylinder engine (Paper Making), a machine in which a
cylinder takes up the pulp and delivers it in a continuous
sheet to the dryers.
Cylinder escapement. See Escapement.
Cylinder glass. See Glass.
Cylinder mill. See Roller mill.
Cylinder press. See Press. Diesel engine
Diesel engine Die"sel en`gine or motor mo`tor [After Dr.
Rudolf Diesel, of Munich, the inventor.]
A type of internal-combustion engine in which the air drawn
in by the suction stroke is so highly compressed that the
heat generated ignites the fuel (usually crude oil), the fuel
being automatically sprayed into the cylinder under pressure.
The Diesel engine has a very high thermal efficiency.
Meaning of en from wikipedia
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En or
EN may
refer to:
Bouygues (stock
symbol EN)
Island Rail Corridor,
formerly known as the
Esquimalt and
Nanaimo Railway (reporting mark
EN) Euronews...
- In chess,
en p****ant (French: [ɑ̃ pasɑ̃], lit. "in p****ing")
describes the
capture by a pawn of an
enemy pawn on the same rank and an
adjacent file that...
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en (from
English en quadrat) is a
typographic unit, half of the
width of an em. By definition, it is
equivalent to half of the body
height of the typeface...
- a
ligature of the
Cyrillic letters en (Н н) and ge (Г г), but
en-ge is used as a
separate letter in alphabets.
En-ge is used in the
alphabets of the Altai...
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En papillote (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃ papijɔt];
French for "enveloped in paper"), or al
cartoccio in Italian, is a
method of
cooking in
which the food...
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En with
descender (Ң ң; italics: Ң ң) is a
letter of the
Cyrillic script. Its form is
derived from the
Cyrillic letter En (Н н) by
adding a descender...
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en garde in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
En garde is
French for "On [your] guard", a
warning term in fencing.
En garde or
En Garde may refer...
- Ito
En, Ltd. (株式会社伊藤園,
Kabushiki Gaisha Itō
En) (TYO: 2593) is a ****anese
multinational drinks company specializing in tea production, distribution, and...
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European languages, and
others worldwide. Its name in
English is
en (pronounced /
ˈɛn/),
plural ens. One of the most
common hieroglyphs, snake, was used...
