axial-flow compressor
noun
a device for compressing a gas by accelerating it tangentially by means of bladed rotors, to increase its kinetic energy, and then diffusing it through static vanes (stators), to increase its pressure
Words Nearby axial-flow compressor
- axenic
- axes
- axi-
- axial
- axial-flow
- axial-flow compressor
- axial skeleton
- axial strain
- axial stress
- axial vector
- axil
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