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self-ˈact·ing ADJ inv

self-acting
self-acting machine

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self-acting machine

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English
A self-acting loom would stop when any thread broke, and the thread had to be retied or pieced.
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Loaded wagons were run in pairs down a self-acting inclined plane railway (two loaded wagons going down hauled another two emptied ones up).
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Preparation was done on the second floor and self-acting mules with 400 spindles were arranged transversely on the floors above.
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Many rare items from the period in musical history preceding the gramophone could be seen and heard including self-acting pianos, pianolas and even pneumatic orchestrelle organs.
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The task he had set himself was to design a self-actor, a self-acting or automatic spinning mule.
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The granite was lowered from the quarry by self-acting inclines to the narrow gauge tramway which ran to jetties from where the setts were loaded into ships.
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It is self-acting, safe, and convenient.
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It was intended to be, at least partly, self-acting with descending wagons counterbalanced to some extent by partly loaded wagons being drawn up.
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The railway used three types of power - locomotives, stationary steam engines and self-acting inclines.
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It was the self-acting mule that was the basis of their success being faster, longer and more productive than their rivals.
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