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cage 1. Engineering a skeleton ring device that ensures that the correct amount of space is maintained between the individual rollers or balls in a rolling bearing 2. Informal the basket used in basketball 3. Informal the goal in ice hockey Cage John. 1912--92, US composer of experimental music for a variety of conventional, modified, or invented instruments. He evolved a type of music apparently undetermined by the composer, such as in Imaginary Landscape (1951) for 12 radio sets. Other works include Reunion (1968), Apartment Building 1776 (1976), and Europeras 3 and 4 (1990) cage [kāj] (crystallography) A void occurring in a crystal structure capable of trapping one or more foreign atoms. (mechanical engineering) A frame for maintaining uniform separation between the balls or rollers in a bearing. Also known as separator. (mining engineering) The car which carries personnel and materials in a mine hoist. (petroleum engineering) A component in a sucker rod pump that contains the valve ball and maintains it at a correct operating distance from the valve seats. (physical chemistry) An aggregate of molecules in the condensed phase that surrounds fragments formed by thermal or photochemical dissociation or pairs of molecules in a solution that have collided without reacting.
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| When her husband next went away for one day, she told on slave to turn under the bird's cage a hand-mill; another to throw water down from above the cage, and a third to take a mirror and turn it in front of its eyes, from left to right by the light of a candle. There he soon died; and it is strange to reflect that he may have regretted his Cage upon Ben Alder. His business in life, whereby he lived, was to appear in a cage of performing leopards before vast audiences, and to thrill those audiences by certain exhibitions of nerve for which his employers rewarded him on a scale commensurate with the thrills he produced. |
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