Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

relay cylinder

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.62 in modern English

Syllables: re-lay -cylin-der
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

In a variable-expansion central-valve steam engine, a small auxiliary engine for automatically adjusting the steam distribution to the load on the main engine.

Inflected Forms

relay cylinders (plural)

Questions

What does relay cylinder mean?: In a variable-expansion central-valve steam engine, a small auxiliary engine for automatically adjusting the steam distribution to the load on the main engine.

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