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Definition of Alleviators
1. alleviator [n] - See also: alleviator
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alleviators
Literary usage of Alleviators
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Direct-acting Steam Pumps by Frank Ferdinand Nickel (1915)
"alleviators.—On pumps where the water pressure exceeds 300 pounds air chambers
cannot be used, because the water rapidly absorbs any air with which the air ..."
2. The Operating Engineer's Catechism of Steam Engineering by Michael H. Gornston (1922)
"Why are alleviators used instead of air chambers when pumps work under pressures
greater than ... alleviators may be placed anywhere on the delivery pipe, ..."
3. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1902)
"To obviate this defect alleviators are used. An alleviator is shown in Fig. ...
alleviators may be placed anywhere on the delivery pipe, but are preferably ..."
4. The United States of North America as They are: Not as They are Generally by Thomas Brothers (1840)
"... as did this place which the ' alleviators' told us was to promote the happiness
of their fellow beings. . There were two Commissioners, Messrs. ..."
5. A Textbook on Steam Engineering by International Correspondence Schools (1902)
"To obviate Ï 31: is defect alleviators are used. ... alleviators may be placed
anywhere on the delivery pipe, but are preferably placed in such a position ..."
6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1839)
"... in the French journals, the results of their experience. One of the most useful
alleviators of pain during menstruation is camphor, triturated with ..."
7. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1883)
"Upon this, the not-to-be- too-greatly-trusted-alleviators-of-the-pains-of-infancy
turned upon him like one man, ..."
8. Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest: With Anecdotes of by Agnes Strickland, Elizabeth Strickland (1848)
"... and her mildness of government, made her adored by a populace, which still
extended its hands to churchmen, as the kind alleviators of their most bitter ..."
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