cross-compound

American  

[kraws-kom-pound, kros-] / ˈkrɔsˈkɒm paʊnd, ˈkrɒs- /

adjective

1. (of a compound engine or turbine) having the high-pressure and low-pressure units side by side.

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Example Sentences

Photo: Roy AttawayWilliams' charge is an authentic steamboat with a 2,000-hp cross-compound steam engine driving a 28-foot-diameter paddle wheel.

From Time Magazine Archive

Q. If a receiving valve in a cross-compound compressor breaks, what may be done?

From The Traveling Engineers' Association To Improve The Locomotive Engine Service of American Railroads by Anonymous

In the case of a cross-compound engine, a receiver is always used.

From Steam Engines Machinery's Reference Series, Number 70 by Anonymous

The largest was a 32 by 20 by 30-in., two-stage, cross-compound, direct-connected to a Fort Wayne 480 h.p.,

From Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Cross-Town Tunnels. Paper No. 1158 by Brace, James H.

Four straight-line compressors and one cross-compound Corliss compressor were installed, the steam being supplied by three Stirling boilers.

From Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad The Terminal Station - West by Cresson, Benjamin Franklin