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recuperator
[ ri-koo-puh-rey-ter, -kyoo- ]
noun
- a person or thing that recuperates.
- (in a recuperative furnace) a system of thin-walled ducts through which incoming air and exhausted gases pass separately so that the air is heated by the gases.
recuperator
/ -ˈkjuː-; rɪˈkuːpəˌreɪtə /
noun
- a person that recuperates
- a device employing springs or pneumatic power to return a gun to the firing position after the recoil
- chemical engineering a system of flues that transfers heat from the hot gases leaving a furnace to the incoming air
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Word History and Origins
Origin of recuperator1
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Example Sentences
Even with the delivery of the first recuperator, difficulties did not vanish.
It is scarcely fair to a modern hydropneumatic recuperator to say that it must be finished with the precision of a watch.
Next in order of time to be conquered as a factory problem was the 155-millimeter gun recuperator.
The heavy 240-millimeter howitzer recuperator was third to come into quantity production.
That is precisely the equivalent of the feat performed by the recuperator of a 240-millimeter howitzer after a shot.
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