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Injector   /ɪndʒˈɛktər/   Listen
Injector

noun
1.
A contrivance for injecting (e.g., water into the boiler of a steam engine or particles into an accelerator etc.).





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"Injector" Quotes from Famous Books



... tolled!! like a church bell tolling for the dead. The train, slowing down, rolled silently over the shrouded earth, the fire in the open furnace blackened and died, the cold air chilled her flues and the stream of water from the open injector flooded the boiler of Blackwings and put the death-rattle in her throat. When at last the train rolled slowly into Galesburg the fireman stood on the deck of a dead locomotive, with snow on her headlight, and, as the crowd surged round him, pointed to the ...
— Snow on the Headlight - A Story of the Great Burlington Strike • Cy Warman


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