piston
Meaning of piston
noun
- A solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder, and moves under pressure (as in an engine) or displaces fluid (as in a pump)
- A valve device in some brass instruments for changing the pitch
verb
To move up and down like a piston.
Information about piston
- The plural form of piston is: pistons.
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Hyphenation of piston
pis-ton
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- piston is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
piston synonyms
Meaning Piston:
Meaning plunger:
Translation of piston
Anagrams of piston
instop, Pinots, pinots, pintos, pitons, points, pontis, postin, potins, spinto
Words that rhyme with piston
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