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Definition: Air Compressor |
Air CompressorNoun1. A compressor that takes in air at atmospheric pressure and delivers it at a higher pressure. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Food & Agriculture | Machinery used to increase the pressure of air by several atmospheres, e. g. for operation of portable tools, starting diesel engines, etc. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | A machine for compressing air. Source: European Union. (references) |
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 | Workmen using a crane and an air compressor to make repairs to steps of the White House South Portico.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Part of air compressor at Ellison Hoist, Lead Homestake Mine.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Production. Aircraft. This air compressor in a Western aircraft plant supplies air power for riveting hammers, sprayguns, and other air-operated equipment.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Expression using "air compressor": clayton air compressor. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "air compressor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | luftpumpe (air pump, air vacuum compressor, tire pump, tyre pump), luftkompressor, kompressor (compressor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | luchtcompressor, compressor (compressor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ahdin (blower, supercharger), kompressori (compressor), ilmapuristin, ilmakompressori. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | pompe-compresseur (air vacuum compressor), compresseur de frein, compresseur d'air. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Verdichter (coagulant, compacter, compacting machine, compressor, soil compactor), Luft-Verdichter, Luftverdichter, Luftpresser, Luftkompressor, Kompressor (air vacuum compressor, booster, compressor, squeezer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συμπιεστής (compressor), αντλία κενού (air vacuum compressor, vacuum pump), αντλία πεπιεσμένου αέρα (air vacuum compressor, compressed air pump), αεροσυμπιεστήσ, αεροσυμπιεστής. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | compressore-pompa (air vacuum compressor), compressore dell'aria del freno, compressore d'aria. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 空気圧縮機 , エール大学 (acquired immune deficiency syndrome, aerobic dancing, aerobicise, aerobics, aerodynamics, aerogram, aerosol, aid, AIDS, AIDS virus, air, air bag, air brake, air breathing engine, air cargo, air check, air circulating system, air cleaner, air conditioner, air conditioning, air curtain, air cushion, air dome, air door, air force, air girl, air gun, air hostess, air mail, air mattress, air pad, air pageant, air people, air pocket, air pot, air pump, air rifle, air right, air service, air shoot, air shuttle, air sick, air suspension, air terminal, air towel, airborne, airbrush, Airbus, airline, airport, airport tax, airsick bag, airsickness, airway, alias, alien, Edam cheese, eight, eight beat, exercising with aerobics, hit point, home page, HP, on-air monitor, stewardess, Yale University). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | くうきあっしゅくき, エアコンプレッサー . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | airay ompressorcay compressor de ar. (various references) compresor de aire. (various references) luftkompressor, kompressor (blower, compressor, supercharger). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-m-o-o-p-r-r-r-s-s" | |
-2 letters: microspores. | |
-3 letters: compressor, micropores, microspore. | |
-4 letters: acrosomes, ascospore, capsomers, comparers, composers, comprises, copremias, coreopsis, mesocarps, micropore, parecisms, perisarcs, pressroom, primroses, processor, promisers, promisors, sarcosome, scrimpers. | |
-5 letters: acrosome, armoires, armorers, armories, aspersor, aspirers, capsomer, carriers, comparer, compares, composer, composes, compress, comprise, copremia, corsairs, crimpers, crispers, crosiers, crossarm, escapism, imposers, impresas, ipomoeas, marriers, meropias, mesocarp, misparse, misspace, morrises, oosperms, parecism, perisarc, praisers, primeros, primrose, prioress, promiser, promises, promisor, prosaism, prosomas, rosaries, sapremic, scampers, scampies, scariose, scarpers, scarrier, scoopers, scrapers, scrapies, scrimper, semipros, sparrier. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 69 72 43 6F 6D 70 72 65 73 73 6F 72 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101001 01110010 00100000 01000011 01101111 01101101 01110000 01110010 01100101 01110011 01110011 01101111 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A i r   C o m p r e s s o r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0069 0072 0043 006F 006D 0070 0072 0065 0073 0073 006F 0072 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)357584237817982847185858184 |
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