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chugging [′chəg·iŋ] (aerospace engineering) Also known as bumping; chuffing. A form of combustion instability in a rocket engine, characterized by a pulsing operation at a fairly low frequency, sometimes defined as occurring between particular frequency limits. The noise that is made in this kind of combustion. (nucleonics) An instability in a water-moderated reactor in which the formation of steam bubbles in the core and their subsequent collapse cause oscillations in the reactivity. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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They were sitting in the little, stuffy parlor when the distant chugging of an approaching automobile caught their attention. Then the slumbrous quiet would fall, to be broken by the far call of a foreign tongue or by a gasoline fishing boat chugging in through the mouth of the slough. |
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