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noria::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | water wheel, waterwheel |
Examples of noria
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On this basis, Joseph Needham suggested that the machine was a noria.
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It was not, however, any more efficient than a noria commonly used by the Muslim world at the time.
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Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi's Kitab al-Hawi in the 10th century described a noria in Iraq that could lift as much as 153,000 litres per hour, or 2550 litres per minute.
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- A water wheel with buckets attached to the rim; used to raise water for transfer to an irrigation channel
- A noria (Arabic: u0646u0627u0639u0648u0631u0629u200Eu200E, nu0101u2018u016Bra, from Syriac: u0722u0725u0718u072Au0710u200E, nu0101u2018uru0101) is a machine activated by water power and used for lifting water into a small aqueduct, either for the purpose of irrigation or for the use in towns and villages. There is at least one known instance where it feeds seawater into a saltern.
- (Norium) Hafnium is a chemical element with the symbol Hf and atomic number 72. A lustrous, silvery gray, tetravalent transition metal, hafnium chemically resembles zirconium and is found in zirconium minerals. Its existence was predicted by Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869. ...
- An ancient pump thought to be the world's first sophisticated machine.
- (n.): a long chain of buckets or receptacles on a wheel used for raising water form a stream into irrigation channels. Back
- Water wheel - a stone grinding wheel, similar to a tahona or molino.
- Watermill, Ferris Wheel. From Arabic na'urah.
