adjutage, ajutage
(əˈdʒ(j)uːtɪdʒ, ˈædʒ(j)ʊtɪdʒ)
[a. Fr. ajutage, variant of ajoutage, f. ajouter to add, join on: see also adjustage, another form of the word. Mod.Fr. has also ajoutage and ajustage, in accordance with the two forms ajouter and ajuster, to which the early ajouster has given rise: see adjust.]
lit. An adjustment, adaptation, or addition: hence in Hydraulics, A tube adapted or adjusted to a pipe or aperture through which water passes, so as to determine the character of the jet; the efflux-tube or mouthpiece of an artificial fountain.
| 1707 Phillips, Ajutage, the spout for a Jet d'Eau, or Pipe that throws up Water in any Fountain. 1751 Chambers Cycl. s.v., It is chiefly the diversity in the Ajutages that makes the different kinds of fountains. 1808 J. Webster Nat. Philos. 117 It will issue at the adjutage or aperture. 1828 Hutton Course of Math. II. 251 If an adjutage be turned upward, the jet will ascend to the height of the surface of the water in the vessel. 1829 U.K.S. Nat. Philos. I. Hydraulics i. 4 The spouting or flowing of water through jets or adjutages. 1873 Atkinson tr. Ganot's Phys. (ed. 3) 157 A cylindrical or conical efflux tube or adjutage is fitted to the aperture. |