duplex pump

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noun

a pair of direct-acting steam pumps so arranged that each pump begins its working stroke just as the other finishes its working stroke, so that the rate of flow of the fluid is nearly continuous.

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How to use duplex pump in a sentence

Her slight miscalculation of how to fix the situation leads to her driving around the gas pump.
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The Duplex Drive (called DD) was one: an amphibious conversion which could be fitted to a normal Sherman tank.
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Some are homes and some are pump houses, and you can only tell the difference when you see human silhouettes scurry on rooftops.
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Two feet from the sawed-off stump of a third willow is the small foot-pump carousel Ray was sitting on when he shot himself.
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(Although Roberts also owns a duplex in Dodge City, he rents that out and does not live there).
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The formula would be: “The pump invented—Drain a well ,” or Water raised in a hollow.
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At Wheal Alfred they have a 64-inch cylinder; the air-pump is 20 inches, and the stroke is half that of the engine.
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I observe that you have ordered the pump, and from the description you give of it, I think it will answer very well.
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It was placed immediately over the shaft and pump-rods, requiring no engine-beam.
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A feed-pump forced water into the boilers; each had a safety-valve with a lever and weight.
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