Piston in a sentence

In the extreme case, they are reduced to the piston crown, support for the piston rings, and just enough of the piston skirt remaining to leave two lands so as to stop the piston rocking in the bore.

The piston is periodically raised by an air lifting mechanism, drawing the material being measured down through the clearance (gap) between the piston and the wall of the cylinder into the space which is formed below the piston as it is raised.

Ventilated iron brakes are standard but larger carbon-ceramic discs are optional; both have 10-piston front calipers and 4-piston rears.

To bring the car to a halt, they inserted a Brembo six-piston front and four-piston rear brakes featuring bright red, clearly visible callipers.

A piston engine does not move the aircraft by itself (the propeller does that), so piston engines are usually rated by how much power they deliver to the propeller.

As a result, piston and connecting rods are heavier and more force must be transmitted through the connecting rods and crankshaft to change the momentum of the piston.

A seal must be made between the sliding piston and the walls of the cylinder so that the high pressure gas above the piston does not leak past it and reduce the efficiency of the engine.

As the piston moves in and out, the seal drags and stretches on the piston, causing the seal to twist.

In piston engines the crankcase oil is contaminated by combustion blow-by through the piston rings.

Lean engines will have a piston dome covered in black carbon, and rich engines will have a clean piston dome that appears new and free of carbon buildup.

Oscillating Piston Viscometer Schematic View The oscillating piston viscometer technology has been adapted for small sample viscosity and micro-sample viscosity testing in laboratory applications.

Piston wash is the color and amount of carbon buildup on the top (dome) of the piston.

Stirling piston engine Rhombic Drive – Beta Stirling Engine Design, showing the second displacer piston (green) within the cylinder, which shunts the working gas between the hot and cold ends, but produces no power itself.

The Besson five valve euphonium featured the standard three piston valves horizontally on top, but had an additional two piston valves off to the side.

The tops of the rods are connected to a vacuum piston or a mechanical linkage which lifts the rods out of the main jets when the throttle is opened (mechanical linkage) or when manifold vacuum drops (vacuum piston).

This pin is mounted within the piston: unlike the steam engine, there is no piston rod or crosshead (except big two stroke engines).

To make these more compact, they avoided the steam engine's usual piston rod with separate crosshead and were instead the first engine design to place the gudgeon pin directly within the piston.

When combustion is complete the combustion gases expand as the piston descends further; the high pressure in the cylinder drives the piston downward, supplying power to the crankshaft.

When the driver presses the brakes, the brake piston pushes on the inside piston and rotates the whole caliper inward, when viewed from the top.

In an interview on CNN Philippines, Pialago said Guadiz appealed to Piston to stop their planned strike.