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triple-expansion

/trip-uhl-ik-span-shuhn/US // ˌtrɪp əl ɪkˈspæn ʃən //

三倍扩张,三倍扩展,三重扩展,三重扩张

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : noting a power source, especially a steam engine, using the same fluid at three successive stages of expansion to do work in three or more cylinders.

Examples

  • Missy Suicide, formerly known as Selena Mooney, is in New York for a series of brand-expansion meetings.

  • Elderly women played Triple Double Diamond and Tiki Magic while they chain-smoked.

  • He recently put up $50 million for half the cost of the Kennedy Center expansion, where he is chairman of the board.

  • The wine-producing countries of Spain, Italy, and France, suggest limits that are double and triple that of the U.S.

  • Tellingly, but not coincidentally, the greatest expansion of Medicaid has occurred in Deep Blue America.

  • When rapidly deposited, as by artificial precipitation, triple phosphate often takes feathery, star- or leaf-like forms.

  • The sediment usually contains abundant amorphous phosphates and crystals of triple phosphate and ammonium urate.

  • At the beginning of 1917 I was offered the chance of production in a triple bill if I cut it down into a two-act play.

  • This engine only took steam during the first quarter of its stroke, the remaining three-quarters were by the expansion.

  • This most simple steam-engine combined in the greatest degree the two elements of expansion and momentum.