piston
n=3
a: piston ~
b: a giant tennis racket
What:
"Microscopically speaking, compressing a gas must involve a surface, let's say a piston, charging into the gas. During this process, the piston is like a giant tennis racket smashing back all the trillions of tennis balls, i.e. the gas molecules, that happen to collide into it."
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Writer: mrchuakh
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Date: Apr 15 2017 8:05 PM
# 11135 Critique Analogy
a: A piston ~
b: solid coffee can
What: "The pistons are like solid coffee cans that go up and down in the cylinders. When they go down, they suck in air and fuel. When they go up, they squeeze that stuff to one eighth the size, then that mixture gets ignited by the spark plug. There has to be a gap between the pistons and cylinders so it can slide freely, but that gap would let the mixture leak past the piston and become useless as far as generating power is concerned."
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Writer: caradiodoc
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Date: Oct 3 2013 6:40 PM
# 3810 Critique Analogy
a: Piston ring ~
b: a spring
What: "A piston ring is like a spring. Engine bores are not really round. Manufacturing imperfections, cylinder wear, and head bolt loads make cylinders out of round when you're looking at a micron scale." A discussion of piston rings is in the link.
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Writer: Verruckt
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Date: Oct 3 2013 6:30 PM
# 3809 Critique Analogy
METAMIA is a free database of analogy and metaphor. Anyone can contribute or search. The subject matter can be anything. Science is popular, but poetry is encouraged. The goal is to integrate our fluid muses with the stark literalism of a relational database. Metamia is like a girdle for your muses, a cognitive girdle.