Definition of Ajutage

1. n. A tube through which water is discharged; an efflux tube; as, the ajutage of a fountain.

Definition of Ajutage

1. Noun. A tube through which is water is discharged; an efflux tube. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ajutage

1. a nozzle in a fountain [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ajutage

ajaracas
ajarred
ajarring
ajee
ajiva
ajivas
ajmalicine
ajmaline
ajog
ajoite
ajon
ajowan
ajowan oil
ajowans
ajugas
ajutage (current term)
ajutages
ajvar
ajwain
ajwains
ajwan
ajwans
aka
akaganéite
akaganéites
akageneite
akageneites
akamushi disease
akanthion
akaryocyte

Literary usage of Ajutage

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Appletons' Cyclopædia of Applied Mechanics: A Dictionary of Mechanical by Appleton, firm, publishers, New York (1878)
"In the former case, when the length of the ajutage does not exceed four times its diameter, the increase is in the proportion of 1.33 to 1. ..."

2. A Practical Treatise on Hydraulic and Water-supply Engineering: Relating to by John Thomas Fanning (1901)
"The capability of the divergent ajutage to increase the discharge from a given diameter of critice, was known to the ancient philosophers, and to some of ..."

3. Elementary Treatise on Physics Experimental and Applied for the Use of by Adolphe Ganot, Edmund Atkinson (1886)
"If a cylindrical or conical efflux tube or ajutage is fitted to the aperture, ... A short cylindrical ajutage, whose length is from two to three times its ..."

4. A Practical Treatise on Water-supply Engineering: Relating to the Hydrology by John Thomas Fanning (1877)
"The capability of the divergent ajutage to increase the discharge from a given diameter of orifice, was known to the ancient philosophers, and to some of ..."

5. The Two Books on the Water Supply of the City of Rome of Sextus Julius by Sextus Julius Frontinus (1899)
"This is what he says on this point, 36: (An ajutage) "placed at right angles and level, it maintains its proper measure; set against the current of the ..."

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