extruder
- noun
- /ɪkˈstruːdər/
- Specialized
:
extrusora
- Carr is studying how starch changes physically and chemically as it undergoes continuous processing in an extruder.
- a twin-screw extruder
- a screw extruder
Examples
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This extruder can be faced with different dies to mold different shapes; almost an infinite variety of shapes can be extruded.
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Without the twin-screw extruder's thorough mixing capability, some chemical reactions could not be done practically.
Academic text (1994) -
Right in there is the extruder, so we'll just take that out.
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So it's larger volume and it uses their smart extruder plus print head.
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Extruders are not new on the American industrial scene.
Academic text (1994) -
Carlisle Engineering Products Inc. is a custom molder and extruder of rubber and plastic products, mainly for the automotive market.
Academic text (2002) -
Today, in the food-processing section of the plant, researchers use a highly instrumented twin-screw extruder to create healthful new fruit- or vegetable-based foods.
Academic text (2000) -
With a twin-screw extruder, herbicide encapsulation is readily adaptable to conventional industrial production, Carr says, and requires less energy than batch processing.
Academic text (1994) -
Carr has patented this use of the twin-screw extruder with co-inventors Doane, Robert E. Wing, and Edward B. Bagley, also at NCAUR.
Academic text (1994) -
The extruder shapes plastic by forcing it through a mold to create various products.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Extruder comes from the Latin extrudere, made of ex- 'out' and trudere 'to push'. So an extruder literally 'pushes out' material, which is why it is a machine that forces material through a mold or die to shape it.
