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Definition of Sustainers
1. sustainer [n] - See also: sustainer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sustainers
Literary usage of Sustainers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Artificial and Natural Flight by Hiram Stevens Maxim (1908)
"Cross-section of condenser tube, made in the form of Philipps' sustainers, in
which c is the steam passage. These were mounted on a frame as shown at a (Fig ..."
2. Artificial and Natural Flight by Hiram Stevens Maxim (1908)
"Cross-section of condenser tube, made in the form of Philipps' sustainers, in
which c is the steam passage. These were mounted on a frame as shown at a (Fig ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1880)
"... is left of the sustainers and the ventral posterior margin of the twelfth
joint, but between the ventral sutures of this last and the preceding joint. ..."
4. Navigating the Air: A Scientific Statement of the Progress of Aëronautical by Aero Club of America, Israel Ludlow (1907)
"The sustainers have a combined area of 136 square feet; they are convex on the upper
... The frame holding the sustainers is set up in a light canoe-shaped ..."
5. A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera: A Text-book for Students and by James William Tutt (1900)
"(8) The " sustenter ridges," usually connected with the sustainers, embracing
them on the outside and extending backwards to the inside of the ventral ..."
6. Proceedings of the International Conference on Aerial Navigation, Held in (1894)
"The sustainers and horizontal rudder would perform the part of a horizontal keel,
... If the inclination of the sustainers front and back could be altered ..."
7. Navigating the Air: A Scientific Statement of the Progress of Aeronautical by Aero Club of America (1907)
"The sustainers have a combined area of 136 square feet; they are convex on the upper
... The frame holding the sustainers is set up in a light canoe-shaped ..."