Examples of 'tainter' in a sentence
Meaning of "tainter"
tainter (noun): a term used in engineering and environmental science to refer to a type of dam or gate used to control the flow of water in rivers or reservoirs
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- Agent noun of taint: someone or something that taints.
- A surname
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Tainter received several distinguished awards for his graphophone.
The spillway is located on its crest and is controlled by four tainter gates.
Tainter has written and edited many articles and monographs.
The medium lethal dose is calculated graphically by the method of Tainter and Miller.
Tainter knows of only one civilisation that managed to decline but not fall.
These rivers drain the farm fields north of Lake Tainter.
Tainter is not convinced that even new technology will save civilisation in the long run.
This law of diminishing returns appears everywhere, Tainter says.
Still, Tainter is regarded as the inventor of the gramophone record.
Decades later this same watershed, and the farming industry, would mean trouble for Tainter Lake.
Tainter studied the fall of the Western Roman empire, Mayan civilization, and Chaco civilization.
Again, criteria here based on Tainter.
This is, as Tainter notes in his book, an open question.
The dam at Wilson 's Landing is eight miles long and has 62 Tainter gates.
When a Tainter gate is closed, water bears on the convex ( upstream ) side.
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We have reached the stage where, as Tainter says, " World civilization will disintegrate as a whole . ".
Tainter was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, where he attended public school.
In 1887 Tainter invented the helically wound paper tube as an improved graphophone cylinder.
