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Example sentences for: piston

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The cylinder and the piston, the position of the piston in the cylinder, the grease between the piston and cylinder are constraints.
And now,” concludes Maxwell with a broad smile, “we can use the macroscopic temperature dierence between the left and right boxes to extract mechanical work, say, by driving a piston.”
In actual fact, in the current case some human, or some machine made by a human, did work to construct the cylinder, the piston, assemble the piston into the cylinder with working gas and grease in place.
Think about the cylinder and piston in the idealized Carnot cycle, with the hot, compressed working gas in the chamber.
A feature story says Detroit Piston Grant Hill is ready to dominate basketball.