Look up: escalator

1. escalator
   [n] - a stairway whose steps move continuously on a circulating belt
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2. escalator
   a set of stairs arranged like an endless belt and power driven so that the steps or treads may be made to ascend or descend continuously Category: Transport
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3. Escalator
   Es'ca·la`tor noun [ New Latin Confer Escalade .] A stairway or incline arranged like an endless belt so that the steps or treads ascend or descend continuously, and one stepping upon it is carried up or down; -- a trade term.
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4. escalator
   moving staircase noun a stairway whose steps move continuously on a circulating belt
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5. Escalator
   • (n.) A stairway or incline arranged like an endless belt so that the steps or treads ascend or descend continuously, and one stepping upon it is carried up or down; -- a trade term.
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6. escalator
   moving staircase used as transportation between floors or levels in subways, buildings, and other mass pedestrian areas.[3 related articles]
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7. escalator
   escalator, escalators 1. A moving staircase; a device consisting of revolving stairs that conveys people non-vertically to a higher or lower level. 2. A set of moving steps attached to a continuously circulating belt, that carries people up or down between levels in a building. 3. A stipulation in...
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8. Escalator
   An escalator is a moving stairway used to transport passengers between two different levels, such as floors of a building or the street and the platforms of an underground station. The first escalator was designed and patented by Seeburger and subsequently developed by the Otis Elevator Company in t...
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9. escalator
   Automatic moving staircase that carries people between floors or levels. It consists of treads linked in an endless belt arranged to form strips (steps), powered by an electric motor that moves both steps and handrails at the same speed. Towards the top and bottom the steps flatten out for ease of p...
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10. Escalator
    See Basis. Sometimes a concentrates contract provides only for LME prices to rise above the basis price, in which case the scale is known as an escalator.
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11. Escalator
    [album] Escalator is the only album by Sam Gopal, released in 1968, on the small Stable label. Around the same time the band also released a single "Horse" b/w "Back Door Man". The band was managed by Robert Stigwood. In Lemmy`s book White Line Fever, he says that every song that was credite...
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12. Escalator
    An escalator is a moving staircase – a conveyor transport device for carrying people between floors of a building. The device consists of a motor-driven chain of individual, linked steps that move up or down on tracks, allowing the step treads to remain horizontal. Escalators are used around the ...
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