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Underframe

noun
1.
The internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape.  Synonyms: frame, skeletal frame, skeleton.





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... machine, was banished to the coal district. Its place was then supplied by other and better vehicles,—though they were no other than old stage-coach bodies purchased by the company, and each mounted upon an underframe with flange-wheels. These were let on hire to the coaching companies, who horsed and managed them under an arrangement as to tolls, in like manner as the "Experiment" had been worked. Now began the distinction of inside ...
— Lives of the Engineers - The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson • Samuel Smiles
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... the details of the electrical and mechanical parts of this locomotive when fitted with a platform at either end, and with a hood. The motor. M, is of the internal pole type, and is supported on the underframe of the wagon. A double gear is used. The first is a spur gearing, connecting the motor to a countershaft placed under the motor. This gear reduces the speed of rotation to about 200 revolutions. The countershaft is then connected to the two axles of the trolley ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898 • Various
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Words linked to "Underframe" :   edifice, hoop, ship, supporting structure, skeleton, chassis, skeletal frame, building, aircraft


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