Torpedo tube

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• torpedo

  torpēdo, ĭnis, f. [torpeo], stiffness, numbness, inflexibility, sluggishness, torpidity. I Lit. (ra...

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• torpedo

  torpēdō inis, f torpeo, sluggishness, numbness , S., Ta.— The torpedo, cramp-fish, electric ray . ...

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• Torpedo

  ·add. ·noun An automobile with a torpedo body. II. Torpedo ·vt to destroy by, or subject to the act...

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• Tube

  ·noun A <<Telescope>>. II. Tube ·noun One of the siphons of a bivalve mollusk. III. Tube ·vt To fu...

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• torpedo

  n. a fish, well known elsewhere, andalso called elsewhere, the Numb-fish and Crampfish. For the Aus...

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• torpedo

  A cartilaginous fish allied to the rays, furnished with electrical organs, by means of which it is a...

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• Crookes tube

  ·- A vacuum tube in which the exhaustion is carried to a very high degree, with the production of a ...

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• Geissler tube

  ·- A glass tube provided with platinum electrodes, and containing some gas under very low tension, w...

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• Hittorf tube

  ·add. ·- A Crookes tube. II. Hittorf tube ·add. ·- A highly exhausted glass tube with metallic elec...

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• Lenard tube

  ·add. ·- A tube for producing Lenard rays. ...

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• Pitot's tube

  ·- A bent tube used to determine the velocity of running water, by placing the curved end under wate...

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• Plucker tube

  ·add. ·- Crookes tube. II. Plucker tube ·add. ·- A vacuum tube, used in spectrum analysis, in which...

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• Torpedo body

  ·add. ·- An automobile body which is built so that the side surfaces are flush. ...

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• Torpedo boom

  ·add. ·- A spar formerly carried by men-of-war, having a torpedo on its end. ...

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• Torpedo catcher

  ·add. ·- A small fast vessel for pursuing and destroying torpedo boats. ...

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• Torpedo shell

  ·add. ·- A shell longer than a deck-piercing shell, with thinner walls and a larger cavity for the b...

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• Torpedo station

  ·add. ·- A headquarters for torpedo vessels and their supplies, usually having facilities for repair...

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• Torpedo stern

  ·add. ·- A broad stern without overhang, flattened on the bottom, used in some torpedo and fast powe...

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• Tube-nosed

  ·adj Belonging to the Tubinares. II. Tube-nosed ·adj Having the nostrils prolonged in the form of h...

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• Tube-shell

  ·noun Any bivalve mollusk which secretes a shelly tube around its siphon, as the watering-shell. ...

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• Vortex tube

  ·add. ·- An imaginary tube within a rotating fluid, formed by drawing the vortex lines through all p...

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• Water tube

  ·add. ·- Any tube for passing or holding water; specif., in some steam boilers, a tube in which wate...

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• Whitehead torpedo

  ·add. ·noun ·Alt. of <<Whitehead>>. ...

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• friction-tube

  The means of firing a gun most in favour at present in the British service; ignition is caused by th...

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• Torpedo-boat destroyer

  ·add. ·- A larger, swifter, and more powerful armed type of torpedo boat, originally intended princi...

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• X-ray tube

  ·add. ·- A vacuum tube suitable for producing Rontgen rays. ...

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