siamese connection

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• siamese connection — noun an inlet with two or more couplings to which a hose can be attached so that fire engines can pump water into the sprinkler system of a building • Syn: ↑siamese • Hypernyms: ↑intake, ↑inlet • Part Holonyms: ↑sprinkler system * * * Siamese… …   Useful english dictionary

• Siamese joint — Siamese connection, Siamese coupling, or Siamese joint, (in fire apparatus) a Y shaped device by which two or more pipes or hoses discharge into one hose …   Useful english dictionary

• Siamese coupling — Siamese connection, Siamese coupling, or Siamese joint, (in fire apparatus) a Y shaped device by which two or more pipes or hoses discharge into one hose …   Useful english dictionary

• Siamese — 1. adjective a) Of, or relating to Siam; Thai b) Of a connection of tubes or hoses shaped like a letter Y. See Also: Siamese cat, Siamese fighting fish, Siamese twin, Siamese joi …   Wiktionary

• Siamese Twins —    On April 15, 1811, in Mekong or possibly Bangesau, Siam, two boys were born joined at the waist by a short tubular cartilaginous band through which their circulatory systems functioned. Physicians said that it would be fatal to cut them apart… …   Dictionary of eponyms

• y connection — noun Usage: capitalized Y 1. : star connection 2. : siamese 4 …   Useful english dictionary

• Marine steam engine — Period cut away diagram of a triple expansion steam engine installation, circa 1918 A marine steam engine is a reciprocating steam engine that is used to power a ship or boat. Steam turbines and diesel engines largely replaced reciprocating steam …   Wikipedia

• pipeline — Synonyms and related words: adjutage, bush telegraph, catheter, channel, coming, conduit, confidential information, connection, contact, conveyor, cooking, drainpipe, duct, efflux tube, fire hose, flue pipe, flume, funnel, garden hose, gas pipe,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• угловое соединение (труб) — — [http://slovarionline.ru/anglo russkiy slovar neftegazovoy promyishlennosti/] Тематики нефтегазовая промышленность EN siamese connectionwye connectionY connectionY connection …   Справочник технического переводчика

• catheter — Synonyms and related words: adjutage, drainpipe, efflux tube, fire hose, flue pipe, funnel, garden hose, gas pipe, hose, hosepipe, nipple, organ pipe, pipe, pipeline, pipette, piping, reed, reed pipe, siamese, siamese connection, siphon, snorkel …   Moby Thesaurus

• funnel — Synonyms and related words: adjutage, approach, asymptote, bottleneck, canalize, carry, catheter, center, centralize, channel, channelize, chimney, close, close in, close up, close with, collision course, come together, complex cone, concenter,… …   Moby Thesaurus