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steam jacket

noun

  1. a casing, as on the cylinder of a steam engine, filled with live steam to keep the interior hot.


steam jacket

noun

  1. engineering a jacket containing steam that surrounds and heats a cylinder
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Other Words From

  • steam-jacket·ed adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of steam jacket1

First recorded in 1830–40
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Example Sentences

It is provided with a steam jacket; and the two ports are 45 millimeters in width by 200 in length.

The wood is inclosed, in a tank kept hot by a steam jacket which surrounds it, as shown.

The processes employed are very simple, the fresh milk being put into a great copper tank with a steam jacket.

The working cylinder is in the form of a liner to the cylinder, thus forming the steam jacket, with a view to future renewal.

It may also be caused by the cylinder being unduly cooled, as from water accumulating in a steam jacket.

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