Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To encase in or provide with a water jacket.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To surround or fit with a water-jacket.
- noun A casing containing water placed about something to keep it cool, or otherwise regulate its temperature. Compare
water-mantle and water-box.
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Examples
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Fig. 10.3: Constructional drawing of a water-jacket plant.
10. Appendix 1989
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Of all simple systems, the water-jacket plant is the cleanest.
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Fig. 34: Comparison of floating drums for water-jacket plants (A) and for plants with internal gas outlet (B): Bot types of plant are assumed to have the same gas-holding capacity.
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The water-jacket is particularly suitable where human excrement is to be digested.
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The water-jacket plant (Figure 33) is a special case of the floating-drum plant.
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The very large percentage of heat absorbed by the water-jacket should point out to the ingenuity of inventors the first problem to be attacked, viz., how to save this heat without wasting the lubricant or making it inoperative; and in the solution of this problem, I look for the most important improvement to be expected in the engine.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885 Various
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They are all water-cooled, having a water-jacket of sheet metal entirely surrounding the barrel.
The Emma Gees Herbert Wes McBride
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A water-jacket for cooling the walls of a gas-producer or glass-furnace is much more like a water-jacket for cooling the walls of a limekiln or steam-boiler furnace than it is like the art of gas-making or manufacture of glass articles.
The Classification of Patents United States Patent Office
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In accordance with what are thought to be the correct principles, therefore, the zinc-condenser ought not to be classified as a part of the art of metallurgy, nor the water-jacket as a part of the art of gas-making, merely because these instruments have a use in these arts, but should be included, respectively, in classes based upon the more fundamental utilities effected by them.
The Classification of Patents United States Patent Office
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Taking a compass bearing of the position of one of the machine-guns, for the cloud of steam arising from its overheated water-jacket disclosed its place of concealment, Wilmshurst made a careful note of the fact for subsequent use.
Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force Ernest [Illustrator] Prater 1917
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