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What (who) is paddle wheel - definition
WHEEL WITH A NUMBER OF PADDLES INSTALLED AROUND THE PERIPHERY OF THE WHEEL; PART OF A BOAT, FAN OR OTHER MACHINE
Paddle-wheel; Paddlewheel; Stern wheel; Paddle wheels
paddle wheel
¦ noun a large powered wheel with paddles round its circumference, attached to the side or stern of a ship and propelling the ship by its rotation.
Paddle wheel
A paddle wheel is a form of waterwheel or impeller in which a number of paddles are set around the periphery of the wheel. It has several uses, some of which are:
Dog paddle
A SIMPLE SWIMMING STYLE
Dog paddle swimming; Dog-paddle; Doggy Paddle; Doggy paddle; Doggie Paddle
The dog paddle or doggy paddle is a simple swimming style. It is characterized by the swimmer lying on their chest and moving their hands and legs alternately in a manner reminiscent of how dogs and other quadrupedal mammals swim.
Wikipedia
Paddle wheel
A paddle wheel is a form of waterwheel or impeller in which a number of paddles are set around the periphery of the wheel. It has several uses, of which some are:
- Very low-lift water pumping, such as flooding paddy fields at no more than about 0.5 m (20 in) height above the water source.
- To move and mix algae culture in the raceway ponds used for algaculture.
- Propulsion of watercraft (as a paddlewheel)
- Low head hydro power (as a waterwheel)
- Flow sensors
- Aerators
The paddle wheel is an ancient invention but is still used today in a wide range of industrial and agriculture applications.
Examples of use of paddle wheel
1. When light strikes the molecule, the paddle flips around, much like a riverboat‘s paddle wheel.
2. I recently spent two weeks on a paddle–wheel steamboat, the Mississippi Queen, going down the river from St.
3. In 1'75, when Louisiana‘s Edwin Edwards hosted the conference in New Orleans, the oil and gas industry, on the last night, loaded up several fake paddle–wheel steamboats with more clams and oysters and booze than I‘ve ever seen –– and people got seriously wasted.