eccentric : Idioms & Phrases

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Back eccentric

  • the eccentric that reverses or backs the valve gear and the engine.
Webster 1913

Eccentric hook ∨ gab

  • a hook-shaped journal box on the end of an eccentric rod, opposite the strap.
Webster 1913

Eccentric anomaly

  • . (Astron.) See Anomaly.
Webster 1913

Eccentric chuck

  • (Mach.), a lathe chuck so constructed that the work held by it may be altered as to its center of motion, so as to produce combinations of eccentric combinations of eccentric circles.
Webster 1913

Eccentric gear

  • . (Mach.) (a) The whole apparatus, strap, and other parts, by which the motion of an eccentric is transmitted, as in the steam engine. (b) A cogwheel set to turn about an eccentric axis used to give variable rotation.
Webster 1913

eccentric person

  • noun a person with an unusual or odd personality
    eccentric; geek; oddball; flake.
WordNet

Eccentric rod

  • the rod that connects as eccentric strap with any part to be acted upon by the eccentric.
Webster 1913

Eccentric sheave, ∨ Eccentric pulley

  • an eccentric.
Webster 1913

Eccentric strap

  • the ring, operating as a journal box, that encircles and receives motion from an eccentric; called also eccentric hoop.
Webster 1913

Fore eccentric

  • the eccentric that imparts a forward motion to the valve gear and the engine.
Webster 1913