"waterthief" meaning in All languages combined

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          "extra": "a type of valve",
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          "ref": "1960, Annual Report, Oregon, State Fire Marshal, page 96:",
          "text": "Weston—300 feet 1½ inch hose; 50 feet 2½ inch hose; one flasher; one siamese waterthief; one foam extinguisher.",
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          "ref": "1997, Gerhard Endress, Remke Kruk, editors, Akten des Zweiten Symposium Graeco-Arabicum, page 197:",
          "text": "An example is the waterthief (klepsydra). This is a tube, of which one (bottom) end is held under water, and which becomes full of water by sucking the air out of it at the other (top) end.",
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          "ref": "2021, Michael Louis Kuk, An Army Firefighter in Vietnam 1970-1971:",
          "text": "The APC Tank was capable of delivering three mediums of extinguishing agents via a valved “Waterthief” three-way appliance that was connected to the P-250 pump.",
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          "ref": "2023, Edwin Zondervan, Cristhian Almeida-Rivera, Kyle Vincent Camarda, Product-Driven Process Design, page 439:",
          "text": "The most common control loop is called the feedback control loop. Feedback control is as old as civilization, or at least 1000 years old. Figure 17.8 shows a klepshydra, which is ancient Greek for \"waterthief\"!",
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          "ref": "1960, Annual Report, Oregon, State Fire Marshal, page 96:",
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          "ref": "2021, Michael Louis Kuk, An Army Firefighter in Vietnam 1970-1971:",
          "text": "The APC Tank was capable of delivering three mediums of extinguishing agents via a valved “Waterthief” three-way appliance that was connected to the P-250 pump.",
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          "ref": "2023, Edwin Zondervan, Cristhian Almeida-Rivera, Kyle Vincent Camarda, Product-Driven Process Design, page 439:",
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