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  • Grinding unit: A high-speed, small-size mill with a grinding mechanism made of stone disks, similar to the one used with small-power motors, serves as a grinding unit.

    1. Preface 1996

  • A Bending Converter could be built relatively cheaply and for small-power uses -- such as powering a ship or automobile or manufacturing plant -- could literally run on air, since the moisture content of ordinary air was enough to power the converter itself with plenty of power left over.

    Unwise Child Randall Garrett 1957

  • The feed-in tariff has worked extremely successfully in Germany for many years but the British government remained wedded to the earlier RO system and only caved in to the idea of a small-power tariff after a long campaign by small suppliers such as Solarcentury and green campaign groups such as Friends of the Earth.

    Environment news, comment and analysis from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk Terry Macalister 2010

  • It is a big power with a medium-power mindset, and a small-power chip on its shoulder.

    The Economist: Correspondent's diary 2009

  • "After all, I was getting pretty tired of the city, and I suppose I can raise enough to put up a small-power mill.

    Vane of the Timberlands Harold Bindloss 1905

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