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con•tin'u•ous-ex•pan'sion en"gine



Pronunciation: (kun-tin'yOO-us-ik-span'shun), [key]
a steam engine in which a high-pressure cylinder is partly exhausted into a low-pressure cylinder during each stroke.

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continuous cuttercontinuous-form
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