direct coupling
Britishnoun
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- direct coupled adjective
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Types A and C of the 60-80 are for direct coupling of propeller, with double thrust ball bearings.
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A dynamo for direct coupling to such a wheel should have a rated speed within 5 per cent of 875 r.p.m.; and, as generators of this speed are to be had from the stock of almost all manufacturers, there would be no extra charge.
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Wondering, vaguely uneasy, he read and re-read this note, so unlike Ailsa, so brief, so disturbing in its direct coupling of the people in whose company he had first met Letty Lynden.
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