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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A valve gear consisting of two eccentrics with their rods, giving motion to a slide valve by an adjustable connecting bar (the link) in such a way that the motion of the engine can be reversed, or the cutoff varied.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
Topics: engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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History
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