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"Piston" Definition

noun

A solid cylinder or disk that fits snugly into a larger cylinder and moves under fluid pressure, as in a reciprocating engine, or displaces or compresses fluids, as in pumps and compressors.
Music A valve mechanism in brass instruments for altering the pitch.
A sliding piece moved by or moving against fluid pressure which usually consists of a short cylindrical body fitting within a cylindrical chamber or vessel along which it moves back and forth.
A sliding valve moving in a cylinder in a brass instrument which when depressed by a finger knob serves to lower the instrument's pitch.

biographical name

Walter Hamor 1894–1976 Am. composer.

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