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Definition of Dead centre
1. Noun. The position of a crank when it is in line with the connecting rod and not exerting torque.
Definition of Dead centre
1. Noun. (British) (alternative spelling of dead center) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dead Centre
Literary usage of Dead centre
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gasoline Automobile: Its Design and Construction by Peter Martin Heldt (1916)
"Next the crankshaft is turned over the dead centre until the piston is again the
same distance from the top of the stroke, and another mark is made on the ..."
2. The Gasoline Automobile: Its Design and Construction by Peter Martin Heldt (1916)
"Next the crankshaft is turned over the dead centre until the piston is again the
same distance from the top of the stroke, and another mark is made on the ..."
3. Hand-book of Modern Steam Fire-engines: Including the Running, Care and by Stephen Roper (1897)
"Place the crank on the dead-centre, and remove the bonnet of the ... DEAD-CENTRE.
A difficulty is often experienced in finding what is called the ..."
4. The Mechanical Engineering of Power Plants by Frederick Remsen Hutton (1897)
"Set the main crank of the engine on either dead-centre. ... Turn the engine over
until the crank is nearly at its dead-centre and scratch a mark on ..."
5. Automobile Starting, Lighting and Ignition: Elementary Principles, Practical by Victor Wilfred Pagé (1916)
"Magneto Setting—Piston top dead centre. Maximum advance of magneto .5 ...
Remy System—Piston top dead centre when indexing button on distributor engages. ..."
6. Bicycles & tricycles: an elementary treatise on their design and by Archibald Sharp (1896)
"The crank is then said to be on a ‘dead-centre.' In steam-engines, and mechanisms
in which ... The existence of the dead-centre is supposed by some to be ..."
7. The Electrical Engineer (1892)
"But it, in its turn, when it comes to a dead centre, is driven on by the first one,
... One alone would be sure to stop at a dead centre sometimes, ..."
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