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Compressor   /kəmprˈɛsər/   Listen
noun
Compressor  n.  Anything which serves to compress; as:
(a)
(Anat.) A muscle that compresses certain parts.
(b)
(Surg.) An instrument for compressing an artery (esp., the femoral artery) or other part.
(c)
An apparatus for confining or flattening between glass plates an object to be examined with the microscope; called also compressorium.
(d)
(Mach.) A machine for compressing gases; especially, an air compressor.





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"Compressor" Quotes from Famous Books



... girl got out. The red evening glow reflecting from her golden hair, made her breathing globe almost amber. Male Martians and Earthlings alike turned to stare in appreciation as she pushed her way through the crowd to the building's compressor lock. Carol was that kind ...
— Blind Spot • Bascom Jones
... the gravity neutralizer worked as Professor Henderson hoped they would, as soon as the ship was completed, all that would be necessary to start on the voyage would be to fill the aluminum bag and set the air compressor in motion. ...
— Five Thousand Miles Underground • Roy Rockwood
... an air-compression plant that its movements may continually work to fill a reservoir of air at a high pressure. The marine engines of the ordinary type will then be adapted to work with compressed air, and the true steam-engine itself will be used for operating an air compressor on ...
— Twentieth Century Inventions - A Forecast • George Sutherland
... months ago, and we'd stood for two assessments. Then it turned out there was something wrong with the pulp compressor dingus that was to have shot out containers at the rate of two hundred a minute. Some of us went over to Jersey to see it work; but all it produced while we was there was a groanin' sound and a smell of sour dough. ...
— Shorty McCabe on the Job • Sewell Ford


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