lost motion

However even the best of aiming mechanisms involved some lost motion.

One effect of this was it had many pins and links, resulting in lost motion.

With a master at work, no noise, no lost motions?

There was not a particle of lost motion.

This arrangement substantially reduces the lost motion and compliance in the feed system.

He had a shock of rusty brown hair, gray eyes, and a way of moving in which there was no lost motion.

With a minimum of lost motion, the clip-board and thermos were tossed into the back seat.

No lost motion with him.

There was always debate about the advantages of Baker gear, the main criticism being the number of pin joints and possible lost motion.

Without a second of lost motion, he quickly removed his dive knife from its leg sheath and pried out the pins in the hinges.

A lost motion picture.

"You flatter yourself, M had seemed to be coming faster, with less lost motion and surer grasp of the gun on that first grab.

Jarvis performed the task smoothly, with no lost motion, as Qazi and Ali watched.

"He's skillful, with a winning way about him and no lost motion," Mr. Annenberg said.

It's wrong it's wrong it's wrong- "The scout's lost motion control!"

"Nuisance disconnects" were an early problem with that system, eventually solved by the industry, using torque switches with a controlled degree of lost motion.

The valve gear was fitted with new eccentrics and repined and bushed to remove the lost motion which had developed.

There was no lost motion on Yetter's part, but the man's insistence on detail annoyed Chet.

The wastage, and lost motion, and plain dumb luck by which things get done on the Caine are simply staggering."

Again, as with the gear train example, the culprit is lost motion when reversing a mechanism that is supposed to transmit motion accurately.

Willie's method of eating was in itself a sermon on efficiency--there was no lost motion--no waste of time.

He found much lost motion and four broken teeth, and he was grease to his eyebrows--in other words, he was happy.

Of course there was much confusion and lost motion at first, but eventually Ja got them in hand, detailing squads of them under competent chiefs to certain work.

Thus, a tooth play of 0.025 mm (.001") results in a 0.18 mm (.007") lost motion on the tooth of the blade.

Saws with horizontal or tilted slides have an open loop force flow (cf. sheme 2) and maintain any lost motion and compliance of the feed system.