steam jacket

noun

1. a casing, as on the cylinder of a steam engine, filled with live steam to keep the interior hot.

steam jacket

noun

1. engineering a jacket containing steam that surrounds and heats a cylinder

Other Words From

• steam-jacket·ed adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of steam jacket¹

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

It is provided with a steam jacket; and the two ports are 45 millimeters in width by 200 in length.

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The wood is inclosed, in a tank kept hot by a steam jacket which surrounds it, as shown.

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The processes employed are very simple, the fresh milk being put into a great copper tank with a steam jacket.

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The working cylinder is in the form of a liner to the cylinder, thus forming the steam jacket, with a view to future renewal.

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It may also be caused by the cylinder being unduly cooled, as from water accumulating in a steam jacket.

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