pneumatics
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of pneumatics
Vocabulary lists containing pneumatics
Mechanical Engineering
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Civil Engineering
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Engineering - High School
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Example Sentences
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But the ones in use now lean on hydraulics or pneumatics to change the shape of the "hand" to pick up the item.
From Science Daily • May 17, 2024
"Electrifying drilling, upgrading pneumatics and going tankless are certainly steps in the right direction," said Deborah Gordon, a senior principal in the Rocky Mountain Institute's climate intelligence group.
From Reuters • Dec. 20, 2021
HaptX — a longtime player in the virtual and augmented reality industry — says parts of the glove appear “substantively identical” to its own work using pneumatics to simulate physical touch.
From The Verge • Nov. 17, 2021
A combination of hydraulics, pneumatics, gravity and plain old muscle power — sometimes the planks are moved with ropers, as if they were puppets — powers the machine.
From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2018
Even in inert matter—in the dews, the rains, the winds, the tides, the snows, the streams,—her mechanics and her chemistry and her hydrostatics and pneumatics, seem much nearer akin to life than our own.
From The Breath of Life by Burroughs, John
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