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Definition of Burnouts
1. burnout [n] - See also: burnout
Lexicographical Neighbors of Burnouts
Literary usage of Burnouts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Wooden Trestle Bridges According to the Present Practice on by Wolcott Cronk Foster (1904)
"burnouts are treated in a general way similar to washouts; but, as a rule, there
is no water to contend with, and driving can be started at one end ..."
2. Convention by National Electric Light Association Convention, National Independent Meat Packers Association, University of Georgia College of Agriculture, University of Georgia Dept. of Food Science (1906)
"What means do you employ to protect your cables in manholes from injury due to
burnouts in adjacent cables? Asbestos tape securely wrapped around the cables ..."
3. Convention by National Electric Light Association Convention (1904)
"Protection from burnouts can be obtained by wrapping cables with a form of asbestos
tape reinforced by metal bands. The placing of cables where possible in ..."
4. Protective Relays: Their Theory, Design, and Practical Operation by Victor H. Todd (1922)
"This would indicate a reduction of 40 per cent in the burnouts of cables due to
operation of the feeders in multiple, although the cables were actually more ..."
5. Mechanical World and Engineering Record (1881)
"ТО KEEP COSTLY MOTOR burnouts DOWN. Specify and Use Motors with Built-in KLIXON
Protectors Motor burnouts are costly. They result in motor repairs or ..."
6. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1916)
"2 it will be noted that in the 100 per cent areas where the transformers are most
numerous, the burnouts and fuses blown were quite scattering, ..."
7. The Science of Railways by Marshall Monroe Kirkman (1915)
"To illustrate this statement, it is only necessary to note the burnouts in
telegraph relays and telephone instruments or grounded lines during severe storms ..."
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