overspeed

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• The controls can be simple speed meters to indicate rotational speed or can be used as monitors to indicate and control overspeed or underspeed with digital or analog outputs.

  Academic text (1995)

• The engineers monitored the engine closely to prevent an overspeed condition that could cause serious damage.

• In the first instance, the accident was caused by the overspeed of a drive turbine as a result of a control system failure.

  Academic text (1993)

• She is right about the overspeed governor.

  Fiction book (2000)

• This provides a desirable soft buildup of the strong braking action required to limit the gas turbine overspeed.

  Academic text (1998)

• The earliest accident reported occurred during the intentional overspeed burst of an aluminum-magnesium compressor about 30 years ago.

  Academic text (1993)

• The vanes can be released by centrifugal forces (during an overspeed event) or by control system command, which releases the electromagnets.

  Academic text (1994)

• To evaluate the significance of this hazard, it would be necessary to arrange for the intentional overspeed of a typical drive and to establish that burst fragments are contained by the turbine housing.

  Academic text (1993)

• It'll be interesting to see how the plants operate under sudden disconnection of grid load should that occur, with compromised SCADA architecture and a consequential turbine overspeed potential.

  Blog text (27)

• To ensure safety, the system is designed to shut down immediately in case of an overspeed warning.

Antonyms

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to slow down

687 1.4

To move or act more slowly

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