Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A device consisting of a piston that moves within a cylinder containing oil, used to dampen and control motion.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cylinder containing a loosely fitted piston, and partly filled with fluid, designed to check sudden movements in a piece of mechanism to which it is attached.
- noun A device sometimes used for controlling the motion of an arc-lamp, and in other electrical instruments.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mach.) a mechanical damping device containing a piston that moves in a fluid-filled chamber to serve as a pneumatic or hydraulic cushion for a falling weight, as in the valve gear of a steam engine, to prevent shock.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
mechanical damping device consisting of apiston that moves through aviscous fluid (usuallyoil ); used, in conjunction with aspring , inshock absorbers
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a mechanical damper; the vibrating part is attached to a piston that moves in a chamber filled with liquid
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Examples
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The seating of the main admission valve is cushioned by the dashpot, the piston of which is shown in section at G (Fig. 51).
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No dashpot is necessary on this valve, the compression of the steam in the chamber W by the fall of the piston being sufficient to avoid shock.
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Yep, let's see, cart attached to wall with a spring, a pendulum attached to the cart, a force applied to the end of the pendulum, and a dashpot between the pendulum and the wall.
MIT Admissions 2008
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As the researchers put it on the experiment’s website, The fact that our simplified systems produce washboard ripples is important since it shows that neither tyres nor suspension are necessary to obtain washboard roads, although of course, adding a spring, a dashpot, a tyre or an engine would affect the size of the bumps.
The washboard effect ewillett 2009
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ARED dashpot/dampers are failing at about the same rate, and it is not clear at this point why.]
SpaceRef Top Stories 2010
reesetee commented on the word dashpot
A device that cushions, dampens, or reverses the motion of a piece of machinery. It consists of a cylinder in which a piston operates to create pressure or a vacuum on an enclosed gas, or it forces a fluid in or out of the chamber through narrow openings.
November 6, 2007