{"senses": [{"examples": [{"text": "By reducing the temperature in no. 1 seal tank by 20°F, the stock temperature to no. 1 washer would be well below the danger point of causing flashsteam in the barometric leg, and the over-all operation will not suffer.", "ref": "1959, R. A. D. Bezzola, “No. 1 Brown Stock Washer Operation”, in Tappi Journal, volume 42, number 3, The Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry, page 138:", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[142, 152]]}, {"text": "The different types of geothermal resources have necessitated three different types of generating technology: the dry-steam process, the flashsteam process, and the binary process.", "ref": "1980 December 1, Dispersed, Decentralized and Renewable Energy Sources: Alternatives to National Vulnerability and War, page 237:", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[137, 147]]}, {"text": "The flashsteam escapes through the exhaust port (Fig. 20.10) provided at the top of the flashtank while the hot liquid containing some steam condensate flows out through a drain pipe by gravity.", "ref": "2000, P. Chattopadhyay, Boiler Operation Engineering, →ISBN, page 506:", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[4, 14]]}], "topics": ["engineering", "natural-sciences", "physical-sciences"], "categories": ["English compound terms", "English entries referencing missing etymons", "English entries with etymology texts", "English entries with etymology trees", "English entries with etymon", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English nouns", "English terms with quotations", "English uncountable nouns", "Pages using etymon with no ID", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "Pages with etymology trees", "Pages with etymon", "en:Engineering"], "links": [["engineering", "engineering#Noun"], ["steam", "steam"], ["condensate", "condensate"], ["pressure", "pressure"], ["flash boiler", "flash boiler"]], "raw_glosses": ["(engineering) Rapidly formed steam produced when high-pressure condensate undergoes a sudden drop in pressure, as in a flash boiler."], "glosses": ["Rapidly formed steam produced when high-pressure condensate undergoes a sudden drop in pressure, as in a flash boiler."], "tags": ["uncountable"]}], "pos": "noun", "head_templates": [{"name": "en-noun", "args": {"1": "-"}, "expansion": "flashsteam (uncountable)"}], "etymology_text": "From flash + steam.", "etymology_links": [["flash", "flash#English:_intermittently_flash"], ["steam", "steam#English"]], "etymology_templates": [{"name": "ety", "args": {"1": "en", "2": ":af", "3": "flash<id:intermittently flash>", "4": "steam", "tree": "1", "text": "+"}, "expansion": "From flash + steam."}, {"name": "ety", "args": {"1": "en", "2": ":af", "3": "flash<id:intermittently flash>", "4": "steam", "tree": "1", "text": "+"}, "expansion": "Etymology tree\nMiddle English flasshender.\nEnglish flash\nEnglish steam\nEnglish flashsteam\nFrom flash + steam."}], "word": "flashsteam", "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en"}