HYDRAULIC PRESS

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 I. (noun) 

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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

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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)

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