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  1. Machine that compresses a gas, usually air,
  2. commonly used to power pneumatic tools, such
  3. as road drills, paint sprayers, and dentist's
  4. drills. Reciprocating compressors use pistons
  5. moving in cylinders to compress the air.
  6. Rotary compressors use a varied rotor moving
  7. eccentrically inside a casing. The air
  8. compressor in jet and gas turbine engines
  9. consists of a many-varied rotor rotating at
  10. high speed within a fixed casing, where the
  11. rotor blades slot between fixed, or stator,
  12. blades on the casing.
  13.