clearance space English

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clearance space noun

— In a steam engine, the space enclosed in one end of the cylinder, between the valve(s) and the piston, at the beginning of a stroke; waste room. It includes the space caused by the piston's clearance and the space in ports, passageways, etc. Its volume is often expressed as a certain proportion of the volume swept by the piston in a single stroke.

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I just took it for granted that, by the time I was, say, 40, space travel would be a common thing.

A few years ago, however, I started paying attention to space again.

Eventually, I invested in Space Adventures, the company that organized Shuttleworth's trip into space.

Space Adventures was pushing for 2009, but I was pretty busy.

At the top international level, soccer has become faster and more athletic, and the top teams can shrink space on the field more effectively.

Without them, fast-growing seaweed quickly monopolizes space on the reef, preventing restoration of healthy quantities of coral cover.

Compared to 2008-2009, when policymakers had ample space to act, monetary and fiscal authorities are running out of policy bullets (or, more cynically, policy rabbits to pull out of their hats).

The LDP's need for three different prime ministers in the space of little more than a year made plain that the party's power nucleus had melted down.

The Caucasus is too small a space for closed borders and explosive conflicts.

When Einstein added new abstractions to the language of physics, the identity of space and time changed.

And, in a world in which many citizens spend an increasing proportion of their time in virtual space, de facto condominialism is already happening.

But in the absence of a strong civil society, those parties monopolized public space, pushing civic activists to the sidelines.

Of far greater importance is the reawakening of civil society which has, for the first time since 1989, stood up to the political parties to reclaim the public space it relinquished ten years ago.

My father was involved with the United States space program, and we had some moon rocks at home, so I thought it was no big deal.

Once it was dark, a screen was set up and Mark showed home videos from space.

Later, I went on a tour that they organized to watch the launch of Charles Simonyi, the fifth (and soon seventh) space tourist, from Baikonur in Kazakhstan.

Soon after, I started casually discussing the notion of becoming a backup cosmonaut with the Space Adventures team.

So I had vague thoughts that I might go into space sometime in 2011 - the year that Google co-founder Sergey Brin is (very) tentatively slated to go.

In order to gain the breathing space necessary for the reform process to be effective, the Greek government could just announce a simple rescheduling: the due date of all existing public debt is extended by five years at an unchanged interest rate.

And, unlike BCS theory, in which the pairs are isotropic - with identical properties in all directions in space - the pairs in cuprates are strongly anisotropic, resembling a cloverleaf.

As a result, Xi may believe that he now has more space to address the country's economic slowdown, including by lessening the damage wrought by weakening ties with Japan.

During the last four years of his life, Arafat's public space was literally and metaphorically diminishing.

The lesson from Chernobyl is that if nature is to thrive, it must be given space - from us.