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Definition of Strainers
1. strainer [n] - See also: strainer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Strainers
Literary usage of Strainers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Debris Impact On Emergency Coolant Recirculation: Workshop Proceedings by U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (2004)
"With the new knowledge gained from several BWR strainer projects following the
Barseback strainer incident in 1992, the functioning of ECCS strainers for ..."
2. A Text Book of the Physics of Agriculture by Franklin Hiram King (1907)
"The Use of Sand strainers—Where water must be procured in loose sand, ...
Showing ordinary sand strainers and method of measuring their capacity. ..."
3. A Text Book of the Physics of Agriculture by Franklin Hiram King (1899)
"The Use of Sand strainers.—Where water must be procured in loose sand, ...
Showing ordinary sand strainers and method of measuring their capacity. ..."
4. A practical treatise on the manufacture of paper in all its branches by Carl Hofmann (1873)
"This greatly facilitates cleaning it, and permits the two strainers to be turned
up also. When space is wanted, the auxiliary strainer can be placed under ..."
5. Marine Engineers' Handbook by Frank Ward Sterling (1920)
"strainers The strainer shown on the Westinghouse system, Fig. 139, consists of
three readily removable screens placed in a strainer box. ..."
6. Sewage Disposal by Leonard Parker Kinnicutt, Charles Edward Amory Winslow, Robert Winthrop Pratt (1910)
"strainers or Roughing Filters. The screening or straining of sewage through coke,
or similar materials, for the removal of the coarse suspended matter, ..."
7. Practical Irrigation and Pumping: Water Requirements, Methods of Irrigation by Burton Percival Fleming (1915)
"In certain strongly alkaline water these strainers have sometimes been ...
Conclusions on strainers.—In conclusion, with regard to strainers it may be said ..."