2. Noun. (automotive) A set of pipes fitted to the exhaust ports of an automotive engine, designed to increase its power output (essentially by altering gas pressures to get more fuel through it). [ a retailer chosen at random, feel free to replace this with something more authoritative --> ¹
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Definition of Extractors
1. extractor [n] - See also: extractor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Extractors
Literary usage of Extractors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Making, Shaping and Treating of Steel by James McIntyre Camp, Charles Blaine Francis (1920)
"Compressors and Tar Extractors: After the gas leaves the primary coolers, ...
In each of these extractors the gas stream, by means of a perforated plate, ..."
2. The Mineral Industry (1899)
"into the first of the series of extractors (in this instance extractor No.
1), the valves of pipe g of all of the extractors being closed against the ..."
3. A Practical Treatise on the Forms of Process: Containing the New Regulations by Thomas Beveridge, Scotland Jury Court (1826)
"XL OF Extractors AND EXTRACTS. § 1. Of extractors, and their instructions.
THE extractors are four in number, and occupy the extracting room east end of the ..."
4. The Iron Age Directory (1908)
"American Tool & Machine Co., Boston, Extractors, Cotter Pin— Extractors, ...
Hook— Andrew B. Hendryx Co., New Haren, Ct. Extractors, Weed— Extractors or ..."
5. Electricity in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases of the Nose, Throat by William Scheppegrell (1898)
"The first effort in the application of the electro-magnet for laryngeal tube
extractors was by John Bartlett, of Chicago. The body of the instrument was an ..."
6. Petroleum: A Treatise on the Geographical Distribution and Geological by Sir Boverton Redwood (1896)
"In the separation and refining of ozokerite, filter presses and extractors, many
of which are described in ..."
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