recuperator

[ ri-koo-puh-rey-ter, -kyoo- ]

noun

1. a person or thing that recuperates.
2. (in a recuperative furnace) a system of thin-walled ducts through which incoming air and exhausted gases pass separately so that the air is heated by the gases.

recuperator

/ rɪˈkuːpəˌreɪtə; -ˈkjuː- /

noun

1. a person that recuperates
2. a device employing springs or pneumatic power to return a gun to the firing position after the recoil
3. chemical engineering a system of flues that transfers heat from the hot gases leaving a furnace to the incoming air

Word History and Origins

Origin of recuperator¹

1700–10; < Latin recuperātor regainer, equivalent to recuperā ( re ) to recover ( recuperate ) + -tor -tor

Example Sentences

Even with the delivery of the first recuperator, difficulties did not vanish.

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It is scarcely fair to a modern hydropneumatic recuperator to say that it must be finished with the precision of a watch.

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Next in order of time to be conquered as a factory problem was the 155-millimeter gun recuperator.

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The heavy 240-millimeter howitzer recuperator was third to come into quantity production.

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That is precisely the equivalent of the feat performed by the recuperator of a 240-millimeter howitzer after a shot.

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