HYDRAULIC PRESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hydraulic press mean? 

• HYDRAULIC PRESS (noun)
  The noun HYDRAULIC PRESS has 1 sense:

1. press in which a force applied by a piston to a small area is transmitted through water to another piston having a large area

  Familiarity information: HYDRAULIC PRESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HYDRAULIC PRESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Press in which a force applied by a piston to a small area is transmitted through water to another piston having a large area

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("hydraulic press" is a kind of...):

mechanical press; press (any machine that exerts pressure to form or shape or cut materials or extract liquids or compress solids)

 Context examples 

This we have now been doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we erected a hydraulic press.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

‘We are now,’ said he, ‘actually within the hydraulic press, and it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were to turn it on.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The only point which I could not quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press in excavating fuller’s-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out like gravel from a pit.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)