piston

English

Wikipedia

A simplified animation of a piston reciprocating.

Pronunciation

• enPR: pĭs'tən, IPA: /ˈpɪstən/, X-SAMPA: /pIst@n/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪstən

Etymology

From French piston.

Noun

piston (plural pistons)

1. 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)
2. (music) A valve device in some brass instruments for changing the pitch

Translations

solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder

• Armenian: մխոց (hy) (mxocʿ) 
• Czech: píst (cs) m
• Dutch: zuiger (nl) m
• Esperanto: piŝto (eo)
• Finnish: mäntä (fi)
• French: piston (fr) m
• German: Kolben (de) m
• Greek: πιστόνι (el) (pistóni) n 
• Hungarian: dugattyú (hu)

• Icelandic: stimpill (is) m, bulla (is) f
• Latvian: virzulis m
• Macedonian: клип (mk) (klip) m
• Romanian: piston (ro) n
• Russian: поршень (ru) (póršen') m , плунжер (ru) (plúnžer) m 
• Serbo-Croatian: klip (sh) m, stap (sh) m
• Spanish: pistón (es) m, émbolo (es) m

valve of brass instruments

• French: piston (fr) m

• Russian: пистон (ru) (pistón) m , клапан (ru) (klápan) m 

Derived terms

• piston rod
• piston ring

Anagrams

• instop, opts in, pinots, pintos, Pintos, pitons, points

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Finnish

Noun

piston

1. Genitive singular form of pisto.

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French

Etymology

from Italian pestone.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /pistɔ̃/

• audio

  (file)

Noun

piston m (plural pistons)

1. piston
2. (colloquial) contact, connection

   Pour trouver un boulot par ici, il faut avoir des pistons. To get a job round here you need connections.

Derived terms

• pistonner

Anagrams

• pitons
• points

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Romanian

Etymology

From French piston

Noun

piston n

1. piston
2. ramming piston