Sentence examples for off cylinders from inspiring English sources

Many engine companies have been using this basic idea for some time, improving efficiency 5 to 6 percent by turning off cylinders when they are not needed.

Where two such layers meet, potent thunderstorms can arise, causing huge updrafts that can spin off cylinders of spinning air -- not unlike the way a child's rubbed palms can turn a lump of modeling clay into a worm.

They will have big but relatively fuel-efficient engines that can shut off cylinders when not needed.

The mechanical control that shuts off cylinders has changed little from the 1981 version, but now the computer equivalent to an early 1990s Macintosh runs at 50 times the processing speed and holds 100 times the memory.

So she adapted a more advanced imaging system, one that use three cameras, that until now had only been used to study water flow coming off cylinders with pistons generating the force.

Parks and Pipes First, there were half-pipes, those sawed-off cylinders in which snowboarders (and later, skiers) performed their McTwists.

The naturally aspirated V-8 features AMG's first installation of a cylinder management system, which cuts off four cylinders when the car is being operated at conservative levels.

Official mileage would be even lower were it not for the Hemi's cylinder de-activation feature, which cuts off four cylinders when cruising.

In both modes, the V-8 gasoline motor can cut off four cylinders during cruising.

A deliveryman leaves off full cylinders and picks up the empties, much like the milkmen of yore.

One feature, called Displacement on Demand, shuts off four cylinders of the V-8 at cruising speed.