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Definition of Eccentrics
1. eccentric [n] - See also: eccentric
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eccentrics
Literary usage of Eccentrics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Valves and Valve Gears by Franklin De Ronde Furman (1915)
"eccentrics that move automatically by means of the centrifugal force due to ...
In the eccentrics treated below, they will, for completeness of analysis, ..."
2. Valves and Valve Gears by Franklin De Ronde Furman (1915)
"eccentrics that move automatically by means of the centrifugal force due to ...
In the eccentrics treated below, they will, for completeness of analysis, ..."
3. Locomotive Engine Running and Management: A Treatise on Locomotive Engines by Angus Sinclair (1884)
"Several forms of movable eccentrics were invented, and received considerable ...
The first engineer to apply two fixed eccentrics as a reversible gear was ..."
4. The Science of Railways by Marshall Monroe Kirkman (1904)
"LOCOMOTIVE eccentrics. The reason the eccentrics of ... to solve some of the
difficulties attendant upon the usual construction of locomotive eccentrics. ..."
5. The Science of Railways by Marshall Monroe Kirkman (1914)
"LOCOMOTIVE eccentrics. The reason the eccentrics of a locomotive should be
considered of great interest to the practical railroad man is perhaps not ..."
6. A Manual of the Steam Engine and Other Prime Movers by William John Macquorn Rankine (1906)
"eccentrics.—In the engines of American steamers double beat valves are extensively
used, driven by means of eccentrics. There are usually separate ..."
7. A Manual of the Mechanics of Engineering and of the Construction of Machines by Julius Ludwig Weisbach (1878)
"Valves may also be moved by eccentrics, although, in such case, ... Upon this
shaft are two eccentrics E and £t, of which the first also moves the ..."
8. History of the Inductive Sciences from the Earliest to the Present Time by William Whewell (1857)
"Hipparchus was the author of other great discoveries and improvements in astronomy,
besides the establishment of the Doctrine of eccentrics and ..."
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