recuperator

American  

[ri-koo-puh-rey-ter, -kyoo-] / rɪˈku pəˌreɪ tər, -ˈkyu- /

noun

1. a person or thing that recuperates.

2. (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.

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recuperator British  

/ rɪˈkuːpəˌreɪtə, -ˈkjuː- /

noun

1. a person that recuperates

2. a device employing springs or pneumatic power to return a gun to the firing position after the recoil

3. chemical engineering a system of flues that transfers heat from the hot gases leaving a furnace to the incoming air

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Etymology

Origin of recuperator

1700–10; < Latin recuperātor regainer, equivalent to recuperā ( re ) to recover ( see recuperate) + -tor -tor

Example Sentences

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 Talbot, Frederick Arthur Ambrose

It is a great refreshener, recuperator, life-giver, health promoter.

From Pushing to the Front by Marden, Orison Swett

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 Baden-Powell of Gilwell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, Baron

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 Griggs, Frederick Landseer Maur

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 Talbot, Frederick Arthur Ambrose