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Example sentences for "rotative"

Lexicographically close words:
rotates; rotating; rotation; rotational; rotations; rotator; rotatory; rote; roten; rotenone
  1. The rotative and forward inflection would denote exaltation.

  2. There are rotative inflections from one shoulder to the other; this is impatience, regret.

  3. Soon after which, John Steed, who was engineer at Wasborough's mill, took a patent for a rotative motion with a crank, and applied it to their engine.

  4. It was at last the portable machine it remains to-day, and was placed wherever convenient, complete in itself and with the rotative motion adaptable for all manner of work.

  5. I have fixed my mind upon making from twelve to fifteen reciprocating engines and fifty rotative engines per annum.

  6. It was believed that were it possible to give a high rotative speed to the projectile about its major axis the desired object of keeping that axis co-incident with the vertical plane of the trajectory would be accomplished.

  7. Thus, the earth being homogeneous, and having received a rotative motion, necessarily took a spheroidical figure, the two axes of which differ a 230th part from each other.

  8. When a high piston speed is obtained by great length of piston stroke, and not by high rotative speed, their use is less objectionable.

  9. The loss of time due to the reduced rotative speed of work would of course be in proportion to that reduction, or in the ratio of 35 to 50.

  10. One form of apparatus for the propagation of rotative oscillations is shown to the left of Fig.

  11. The hypnotic state in one or other of its phases is produced in the subject or patient in two ways; by word of command or by the use of the rotative mirror.

  12. The rotative mirror is often used where hypnotic influence is first applied to an individual.

  13. A saw in the form of a hollow cylinder, with teeth on the end or edge, and operated by a rotative motion.

  14. Hence the importance which Mr. Rankine is disposed to ascribe to the first actual use of a permanently efficient rotative steam-engine to drive a vessel.

  15. To prevent injurious compression from exhaust valves closing too soon in rotative engines with a fixed stroke, small self-acting relief valves are fitted to the cylinder ends, opening outwards against the pressure into the valve chest.

  16. In direct single-acting lift machines, in which the stroke is fixed, and in rotative machines at constant speed it is obvious that the cylinder must be filled at each stroke irrespective of the amount of work to be done.

  17. Small rotative pressure engines form extremely convenient motors for hoists, capstans or winches, and for driving small machinery.

  18. Small rotative pumps are run faster, but at some loss of efficiency.

  19. In rotative engines the case is more difficult.

  20. In any ordinary rotative engine the length of stroke is invariable.

  21. Rotative pumping engines of large size have a plunger speed of 90 ft.

  22. In some cases pressure engines are used to obtain rotative movement, and then two double-acting cylinders or three single-acting cylinders are used, driving a crank shaft.

  23. Large pressure engines have an efficiency of 85%, but small rotative engines probably not more than 50% and that only when fully loaded.

  24. A rotative engine of forty-horse power was ordered by the Plate Glass Company to grind glass.

  25. I have no doubt,” he wrote to Boulton, “that we shall soon so methodize the rotative engines as to get on with them at a great pace.

  26. The important uses of the double rotative engine were thus exhibited in the most striking manner; and the fame of the Albion Mill extended far and wide.

  27. As the demand for rotative engines set in, Watt became more hopeful as to the prospects of this branch of manufacture.

  28. I have fixed my mind upon making from twelve to fifteen reciprocating and fifty rotative engines per annum.

  29. Besides, he has another rotative scheme to add, which I could have told him of long ago, when first invented by William Murdock, but I did not think it a matter of much consequence.

  30. Let a cylindrical vessel, of any considerable magnitude, be partially filled with water, and let the rotative motion be communicated to the fluid, by passing a rod repeatedly through its mass, in a circular course.

  31. This annulus may be raised or lowered without being resisted by the pressure of the steam, and in rotative engines it is usually worked by a cam on the shaft.

  32. The introduction of the centrifugal pump would obviously extinguish the single acting engine, as rotative engines working at a high speed would be the most appropriate form of engine where the centrifugal pump was employed.

  33. The common stroke of the valve in rotative engines is twice the breadth or depth of the port, and the length of the valve face will then be just the breadth of the port when there is lap on neither the steam nor eduction side.

  34. Rotatory engines have not hitherto been very successful, so that only the single acting or pumping engine, and the double acting or rotative engine can be said to be in actual use.

  35. This high rotative velocity of the sun must cause an equatorial rise of the solar atmosphere.

  36. Rotative engine, a steam engine in which the reciprocating motion of the piston is transformed into a continuous rotary motion, as by means of a connecting rod, a working beam and crank, or an oscillating cylinder.

  37. According to the motion imparted by the engine, as rotative and nonrotative.

  38. A rotative engine will cost more than an up-and-down-stroke, on account of the expense of the fly-wheel and axle.

  39. If it is a rotative engine, with a winding barrel, it will cost 270l.

  40. Watt had perfected, with the aid of Murdoch, both the pumping-engine and the rotative steam-engine for application to mills.

  41. The quicker gas movements made possible, as well as reduction of inertia forces, permits of higher rotative speed, and, consequently, greater power output for a given piston displacement.

  42. Modern airplane engines are designed to operate continuously at a fairly uniform high rotative speed and at full load over long periods of time.

  43. As the parts can be built lighter if the explosions are not heavy, the engine can be operated at higher rotative speeds than when large and cumbersome members are utilized.

  44. It is advisable to use only unblended chemically pure castor oil in rotative engines, first by virtue of its insolubility in gasoline and second because its extra heavy body can resist the high temperature of air-cooled cylinders.

  45. There are however methods by which either a rotative or alternating motion may be produced by very moderate degrees of heat.

  46. Accordingly, in 1781, I invented and took out a patent for several methods of producing rotative motions from reciprocating ones; amongst which was the method of the sun-and-planet wheels.

  47. A rotative engine of this species with the new motion which is now at work in our manufactory (but must be sent away very soon) answers admirably.

  48. The tilting can be stopped by swinging the tail plane on its pivot so as to oppose the rotative tendency.

  49. If the device is placed on a steamship, so that when the vessel rolls a change of rotative plane is produced, the action of the gyroscope will resist the rolling tendency of the vessel.

  50. Now if the rotative speed be taken only half as great, the maximum diameter of the rotor may be doubled and, without increasing the height of the blades, the capacity of the turbine will be doubled.

  51. Because of its higher rotative speed, and absence of a multiplicity of bearings which in the case of a high speed, reciprocating engine must be maintained in close adjustment for the proper operation of the engine.

  52. For a given rotative speed, the mean diameter of blade ring practicable is limited by the allowable stresses due to centrifugal force, and there is a practical limit for the height of the blades.

  53. The maximum economical capacity of a single flow turbine is limited by the rotative speed.

  54. The cause of this is ascribed by Professor Dove to the transfer of the equatorial portions to a higher latitude, by which the excess of its rotative velocity is made apparent, by outstripping the slower moving surface in its progress eastward.

  55. The polar current reaches the surface on the borders of the trades with less rotative velocity than the surface, and is, therefore, met by the surface as a current partaking of both motions.


  56. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rotative" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.