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Definition of Force pump

1. Noun. Pump used to force a liquid up and expel it under pressure.

Medical Definition of Force pump

1. A pump having a solid piston, or plunger, for drawing and forcing a liquid, as water, through the valves; in distinction from a pump having a bucket, or valved piston. A pump adapted for delivering water at a considerable height above the pump, or under a considerable pressure; in distinction from one which lifts the water only to the top of the pump or delivers it through a spout. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Force Pump

Literary usage of Force pump

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on Metallurgy: Comprising Mining, and General and Particular by Frederick Overman (1865)
"Force-Pump.—This kind of pump has no valve in the piston, by which it is chiefly ... 69 a common force- pump is shown. The solid piston is moving in a metal ..."

2. A Text Book of the Principles of Physics by Alfred Daniell (1885)
"... and thus at each upward stroke of the pump water is lifted up and falls out at E. By the force-pump water may be raised to very great heights. Fig. ..."

3. A Text-book of Physics by William Watson (1904)
"If the liquid is water, p=i, and the limiting value for h is 13.6 x 76, or 1033.6 cm., or about 34 feet In the force-pump, the second valve, ..."

4. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1860)
"Geistern, receiving the water from the roofs, and furnished with a force-pump of sufficient power to thoroughly shower every part of the range. ..."

5. An American Text-book of Physiology by William Henry Howell (1900)
"The Auricle a Feeble Force-pump ; the Pressure of its Systole. ... The auricle, then, should be a very feeble force- pump; and such in fact, it is; ..."

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