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Definition of Supercharge

1. Verb. Increase or raise. "Boost the voltage in an electrical circuit"

Definition of Supercharge

1. v. t. To charge (a bearing) upon another bearing; as, to supercharge a rose upon a fess.

2. n. A bearing charged upon another bearing.

Definition of Supercharge

1. Verb. to increase the power of an internal combustion engine (either Otto or Diesel cycle) by compressing the inlet air with power extracted from the crankshaft. ¹

2. Verb. to make faster, more powerful. ¹

3. Verb. (heraldry) To overlay one charge upon another. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Supercharge

1. [v -CHARGED, -CHARGING, -CHARGES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Supercharge

Literary usage of Supercharge

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

1. The Dynamics of the Airplane by Kenneth Powers Williams (1921)
"supercharge.*—If it is desired to make a long flight, a quantity of fuel in excess of the normal is added. This increases W and thus M, and therefore lowers ..."

2. The Dynamics of the Airplane by Kenneth Powers Williams (1921)
"supercharge.*—If it is desired to make a long flight, a quantity of fuel in excess of the normal is added. This increases W and thus M, and therefore lowers ..."

3. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1920)
"90 It is significant that in all these schemes, with the possible exception of the Schimanek arrangement, the supercharge consisted of pure air, ..."

4. Diesel Engine Design by Herbert Frank Percy Purday (1919)
"With supercharge devices, either in the form of valves in the cover or valve controlled ports in the liner, the mean pressure obtainable is only limited by ..."

5. American cities: their methods of business by Arthur Benson Gilbert (1918)
"Also elsewhere in this book I have shown that other business suffers not merely from a monopoly charge but from a supercharge growing inevitably out of ..."

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