rotary pump

American  

noun

1. a pump for transferring water or other fluids by the rotating action of its component parts, as by the meshing of vanes or screws.

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rotary pump British  

noun

1. engineering a pump in which a liquid is displaced through a shaped stator by a shaped rotor

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Example Sentences

Rotary pumps are those in which the piston revolves, an example of the most successful form of rotary pump being shown in Fig.

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The advantage possessed by a rotary pump is that it keeps the water passing through the suction in a continuous and uniform stream, as it has no valves.

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If a rotary pump leaks, the efficiency is not impaired so much as in a piston or plunger pump, all that is necessary being to run the pump at a high speed.

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The Sorata would not lie-to without somebody at the helm, and he could only leave the tiller lashed for a few minutes now and then while he labored at the little rotary pump.

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Lubrication is of the complete forced circulating system, the oil being supplied to every bearing under high pressure by a rotary pump of large capacity.

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