cross-compound

[ kraws-kom-pound, kros- ]

adjective

1. (of a compound engine or turbine) having the high-pressure and low-pressure units side by side.

Example Sentences

One of the advantages of the cross-compound engine over other forms is that the cranks may be set 90 degrees apart, so that when one is on a dead center the other is approximately at its position of greatest effort.

From Project Gutenberg

In the case of a cross-compound engine, a receiver is always used.

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Photo: Roy AttawayWilliams' charge is an authentic steamboat with a 2,000-hp cross-compound steam engine driving a 28-foot-diameter paddle wheel.

From Time Magazine Archive

The case about to be described concerns a steam plant in which there were seven cross-compound condensing Corliss engines, and two Curtis steam turbines.

From Project Gutenberg

But what irritate me are the people who think that the education you get in a modern American super-heated, cross-compound college comes to you already canned in neat little textbooks sold by the trust at one hundred per cent profit, and that all you have to do is to go to your room with them, fill up a student lamp with essence of General Education and take the lid off.

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