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tandem-compound
[ tan-duhm-kom-pound ]
adjective
- (of a compound engine or turbine) having high-pressure and low-pressure units in tandem.
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The engine is built either with a simple cylinder or with a tandem compound cylinder.
From Project Gutenberg
The engine shown in Fig. 46 is of a type known as the tandem compound.
From Project Gutenberg
They are of the multiple expansion parallel flow type, consisting of two turbines arranged tandem compound.
From Project Gutenberg
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