Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of any reciprocating machine or implement, acting effectively in only one direction: distinguished from
double-acting .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having simplicity of action; especially (Mach.), acting or exerting force during strokes in one direction only; -- said of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective engineering Having
simplicity ofaction ; especially acting or exerting force during strokes in one direction only; said of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.
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Examples
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Is there a recipe for single-acting baking powder in 'Taste of Country Cooking'?
Like a lullaby 2008
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Mix/sift them together, and you've got homemade single-acting baking powder.
Like a lullaby 2008
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Or make your own homemade single-acting baking powder.
Like a lullaby 2008
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Baking powder is available as single-acting baking powder and as double-acting baking powder.
The Christmas Cookie Cookbook Ann Pearlman 2010
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There is a single-acting baking powder formula at the very back of Taste; I'd totally forgotten.
Like a lullaby 2008
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For this cake, Miss Lewis called for 4 teaspoons of a particular single-acting baking powder called Royal Baking Powder.
Like a lullaby 2008
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Each had a twenty-horsepower steam engine driving two single-acting air cylinders of fourteen-inch stroke and fifteen-inch diameter.
The Great Bridge David McCullough 1972
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The double-acting engine, unlike the single-acting pumping engine, required
Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt Eugene S. Ferguson 1960
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As you are aware, it is a single-acting engine, in which the gas and air are drawn in by the first outward, and compressed by the first inward stroke.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885 Various
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The engine is necessarily single-acting, but it is effective nevertheless, being about 1-20 H. P., with suitable steam supply.
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