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Exhaust pipe   /ɪgzˈɔst paɪp/   Listen
adjective
Exhaust  adj.  
1.
Drained; exhausted; having expended or lost its energy.
2.
Pertaining to steam, air, gas, etc., that is released from the cylinder of an engine after having preformed its work.
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.
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.






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"Exhaust pipe" Quotes from Famous Books



... engine, the exhaust pipe from the high pressure cylinder leads to the steam chest of the low pressure cylinder, while the piston in the upper cylinder is secured on a piston rod extending downward and connected with a piston operating in the lower cylinder, the ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 • Various

... rusted tools was a "Stillson," and with this Roy disconnected the exhaust pipe from the engine. He next partly "jabbed" and partly cut a hole in the gasoline can of about the circumference of the pipe. A larger hole in the side of the can sufficed for a door and he squeezed the end of the exhaust pipe into ...
— Tom Slade at Temple Camp • Percy K. Fitzhugh



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