ETYM Latin coagulans, p. pr.
That which produces coagulation or clotting (usually of blood).
A device which compresses or compacts.
ETYM Latin.
Machine that compresses a gas, usually air, commonly used to power pneumatic tools, such as road drills, paint sprayers, and dentist's drills.
Reciprocating compressors use pistons moving in cylinders to compress the air. Rotary compressors use a varied rotor moving eccentrically inside a casing. The air compressor in jet and gas turbine engines consists of a many-varied rotor rotating at high speed within a fixed casing, where the rotor blades slot between fixed, or stator, blades on the casing.
A mechanical device that compresses gasses.