accumulator
nounHydraulics
A container which stores hydraulic power for release, in the form of a pressurized fluid (often suspended within a larger tank of fluid under pressure).
Hydraulics
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hydraulic radius
nounHydraulics
For a porous material, the ratio of porosity (ratio of volume of interstitial space filled with fluid to volume of material) to specific surface area (ratio of surface area in contact with fluid to volume of material); for a pipe or channel, the ratio of cross-sectional area to wetted perimeter.
module
nounHydraulics
A contrivance for regulating the supply of water from an irrigation channel.
nappe
nounHydraulics
Geological nappe whose underside is not in contact with the overflow structure and is at ambient atmospheric pressure.
pseudochannel
nounHydraulics
One division of an actual channel into multiple theoretical channels, one per opening, to represent flow through openings into sidestreams.
reducer
nounHydraulics
A hydraulic device for reducing pressure and hence increasing movement, used to transmit the load from the hydraulic support of the lower shackle to the lever weighing apparatus in some kinds of heavy testing machine.
scroll
nounHydraulics
A spiral waterway placed round a turbine to regulate the flow.