Archimedes' screw
noun
a device consisting essentially of a spiral passage within an inclined cylinder for raising water to a height when rotated.
Archimedean screw
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a variation of
Archimedes' screw.
Example Sentences
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A coal-gas balloon "employing the principle of the Archimedean screw," he said, had crossed the Atlantic Ocean in three days.
From Time Magazine Archive
He lifts water from irrigation rivulets to his field by hand-turning an Archimedean screw invented in antiquity.
From Time Magazine Archive
This term generally alludes to the Archimedean screw, or screw-propeller.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
It is a double screw, a thing never suggested by the Archimedean screw.
From All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers
A spiral plate runs through the interior of this cylinder, dividing it into several sections, and thus forming a sort of Archimedean screw.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. by Various
