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Definition of Sparking plug

1. Noun. Electrical device that fits into the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine and ignites the gas by means of an electric spark.

Definition of Sparking plug

1. Noun. (dated) spark plug ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sparking Plug

Literary usage of Sparking plug

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Modern Gasoline Automobile: Its Design, Construction, Maintenance and by Victor Wilfred Pagé (1915)
"F—Crank Shaft. G — Helical Gears. H — Valve Opening. K—Cylinder Head. L — Sparking Plug Holes. O — Cross - Shaft Driving Pump and Magneto. ..."

2. Self-propelled Vehicles: A Practical Treatise on the Theory, Construction by James Edward Homans (1904)
"Go over the wiring carefully and see that the same is properly fastened to the sparking plug and to the battery terminals. If the trouble still continues, ..."

3. The Modern Gasoline Automobile: Its Design, Construction, Maintenance and by Victor Wilfred Pagé (1915)
"F—Crank Shaft. G — Helical Gears. H — Valve Opening. K—Cylinder Head. L — Sparking Plug Holes. O — Cross - Shaft Driving Pump and Magneto. ..."

4. The Modern Gasoline Automobile: Its Design, Construction, Maintenance and by Victor Wilfred Pagé (1914)
"F—Crank Shaft. G —Helical Gears. H — Valve Opening. K—Cylinder Head. L — Sparking Plug Holes. O — Cross - Shaft Driving Pump and Magneto. ..."

5. Dyke's Automobile and Gasoline Engine Encyclopedia by Andrew Lee Dyke (1916)
"sparking plug electrodes are, in a few instances, also made of it. Tungsten points are now extensively used. Platinum points—The small pieces of platinum ..."

6. The Gas-engine: A Treatise on the Internal-combustion Engine Using Gas by Frederick Remsen Hutton (1903)
"This secondar}' circuit has the sparking-plug T in it, projecting into the motor cylinder. When, therefore, the main switch on the primary circuit is closed ..."

7. Motors and Motor-driving by Alfred Harmsworth Northcliffe (1906)
"The sparking plug.—In order to create a spark in the cylinder the wire from the coil is attached to a device known as the ' sparking plug. ..."

8. The Petrol Engine: A Text-book Dealing with the Principles of Design and by Francis John Kean (1915)
"The electric spark takes place as the result of an electric discharge across the gap between the electrodes of the sparking plug. The sparking plug. ..."

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