recuperator
Americannoun
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a person or thing that recuperates.
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(in a recuperative furnace) a system of thin-walled ducts through which incoming air and exhausted gases pass separately so that the air is heated by the gases.
noun
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a person that recuperates
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a device employing springs or pneumatic power to return a gun to the firing position after the recoil
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chemical engineering a system of flues that transfers heat from the hot gases leaving a furnace to the incoming air
Etymology
Origin of recuperator
1700–10; < Latin recuperātor regainer, equivalent to recuperā ( re ) to recover ( see recuperate) + -tor -tor
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It is a great refreshener, recuperator, life-giver, health promoter.
From Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden
For anyone who is tired of life, the thrilling life of a spy should be the very finest recuperator!
From My Adventures as a Spy by Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, Baron Baden-Powell of Gilwell
The recoil brake, together with the spring recuperator, follows the usual Krupp practice in connection with ordinary field pieces, as does also the automatic breech-closing and firing mechanism.
From Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot
Above the breach is an air recuperator and a piston, while there is no hydraulic brake such as is generally used.
From Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot
To-day it is a suburb, a lung, of London; the rapid recuperator of Londoners with whom the pace has been too severe; the Mecca of day-excursionists, the steady friend of invalids and half-pay officers.
From Highways and Byways in Sussex by Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs
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