Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To form holes or cavities within an agitated liquid; react upon the water with *cavitation (which see): said of a screw propeller.
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- verb sciences To form
vapour bubbles in a flowingliquid in a region where thepressure of the liquid falls below itsvapour pressure .
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People have been struggling for years to try and design a very fast rotating boat propeller that doesn't cavitate and literally wear away the metal and put holes in it, just like these pictures show.
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People have been struggling for years to try and design a very fast rotating boat propeller that doesn't cavitate and literally wear away the metal and put holes in it, just like these pictures show.
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People have been struggling for years to try and design a very fast rotating boat propeller that doesn't cavitate and literally wear away the metal and put holes in it, just like these pictures show.
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If the motor is mounted too high above the water, the propeller will slip, churn, and cavitate with little useful power.
Chapter 5 1983
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_Cor. _ 6-petala, campanulata, supra ungues cavitate nectarifera.
The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 6 Or, Flower-Garden Displayed William Curtis 1772
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Especially me, I spent countless nights there sometimes coming in at 12am to refill the sump so the pumps would not cavitate and cause any mortalities.
Blog updates 2009
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The nature-spiraled volute pump doesn't cavitate, and thus uses 20\% to 40\% less juice.
Fast Company 2009
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The nature-spiraled volute pump doesn't cavitate, and thus uses 20\% to 40\% less juice and is two-thirds quieter.
Fast Company 2008
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The nature-spiraled volute pump doesn't cavitate, and thus uses 20\% to 40\% less juice and is two-thirds quieter.
Fast Company 2008
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Corculum minimum in fuperna cavitate peri - fpermi cornei magni.
Antonii Laurentii de Jussieu ... Genera plantarum secundum ordines naturales disposita : juxta methodum in horto regio Parisiensi exaratam, anno M.DCC.LXXIV Barrois, Théophile, printer 1789
ecbrenner commented on the word cavitate
"to form cavities or bubbles." --Merriam-Webster's 11th Collegiate Dictionary
April 14, 2009