rotary pump
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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How to use rotary pump in a sentence
The water is contained in a tank, from which it is circulated in the cylinder jacket by means of a small rotary pump.
Automobile Biographies | Lyman Horace WeeksAt one end of the lecture table I have a rotary pump P (Fig. 68).
The Library of Work and Play: Electricity and Its Everyday Uses | John F. WoodhullThe water was expelled either by means of compressed air or by a rotary pump worked by an electro-motor.
Aircraft and Submarines | Willis J. Abbot.In 1593 Serviere, a Frenchman, born in Lyons, invented the rotary pump.
Inventions in the Century | William Henry Doolittle
British Dictionary definitions for rotary pump
engineering a pump in which a liquid is displaced through a shaped stator by a shaped rotor
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