'Exhaust orifice' definitions:
Definition of 'Exhaust orifice'
From: GCIDE
- Exhaust \Ex*haust"\, a. [L. exhaustus, p. p.]
- 1. Drained; exhausted; having expended or lost its energy. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Pertaining to steam, air, gas, etc., that is released from the cylinder of an engine after having preformed its work. [1913 Webster]
- Exhaust draught, a forced draught produced by drawing air through a place, as through a furnace, instead of blowing it through.
- Exhaust fan, a fan blower so arranged as to produce an exhaust draught, or to draw air or gas out of a place, as out of a room in ventilating it.
- Exhaust nozzle, Exhaust orifice (Steam Engine), the blast orifice or nozzle.
- Exhaust pipe (Steam Engine), the pipe that conveys exhaust steam from the cylinder to the atmosphere or to the condenser.
- Exhaust port (Steam Engine), the opening, in the cylinder or valve, by which the exhaust steam escapes.
- Exhaust purifier (Milling), a machine for sorting grains, or purifying middlings by an exhaust draught. --Knight.
- Exhaust steam (Steam Engine), steam which is allowed to escape from the cylinder after having been employed to produce motion of the piston.
- Exhaust valve (Steam Engine), a valve that lets exhaust steam escape out of a cylinder. [1913 Webster]