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Definition of Set ahead
1. Verb. Move forward. "We have to advance clocks and watches when we travel eastward"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Set Ahead
Literary usage of Set ahead
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mining Practices by Engineering and Mining Journal (1919)
"Bridge pieces, therefore, were unnecessary for catching the ends' of the spiles,
when the set ahead was put in, as sufficient room was always left between ..."
2. A Manual of the Steam-engine: For Engineers and Technical Schools; Advanced by Robert Henry Thurston (1891)
"The angular advance of the eccentric is the angle through which it is thus set
ahead. The " radius of the eccentric," as the term is commonly employed, ..."
3. Sessional Papers (1902)
"The first engine was nearest to the engine shed, and when it was set ahead about
10 yards, Thorpe, who was in charge of engine No. ..."
4. Steam Yachts and Launches, Their Machinery and Manegement: A Review of the by C. P. Kunhardt (1887)
"The arc through which the eccentric is set ahead to meet the addition of lap is
called the "angular advance." By putting the valve ahead to adjust the ..."
5. Steam Yachts and Launches, Their Machinery and Manegement: A Review of the by C. P. Kunhardt (1887)
"The arc through which the eccentric is set ahead to meet the addition of lap is
called the "angular advance." By putting the valve ahead to adjust the ..."
6. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1902)
"But the eccentric can be at right angles to the crank only when there is no lap,
and the greater the lap the more the eccentric must be set ahead to give ..."
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