Sentence examples for moving a piston from inspiring English sources

In the simple hand tire pump, pressure is developed by moving a piston in a cylinder.

A medium of some sort, usually a gas, draws heat from a hot body or bath to do mechanical work, such as moving a piston.

When pressurised, the resulting steam helped move a piston attached to the rear axle, producing forward motion.

The micro pump consists of an electromagnetic actuator which moves a piston forward and backward (stroke 0 to a few mm).

This pressure moves a piston providing the energy to extract and eject the spent casing as well as advance the belt and compress the recoil spring, thus preparing for subsequent shots.

"We think the worm may move like a piston inside the tube to draw in fresh water, then periodically push it out".

The pseudopilus was thought to act as a piston, moving up and down in the thick cell wall layer thereby binding to extracellular DNA and pulling it towards the cell membrane where DNA uptake proteins reside.

In this paper, unsteady compressible Navier Stokes equations are employed for the intake stroke of axisymmetric model having a single moving piston and a single moving intake valve.

In this paper, the collision between the liquid and the jet is supposed as the impact of jet on a moving piston, which makes a complex the fluid mechanical problem become simple.

The power plant contained one-fifth the moving parts of a piston engine, weighed less and -- here's the kicker -- ran on any combustible fuel you could pour in the tank.

The problems of non-stationary and single-frequency pressure wave propagation in a semi-infinite duct with a moving piston and with panels locally embedded in the sidewalls are studied.