1) Moving staircase
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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 world to move pedestrian traffic in places where e...
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• (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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moving staircase used as transportation between floors or levels in subways, buildings, and other mass pedestrian areas.[3 related articles]
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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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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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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 the USA and by Waygood-Otis Ltd in Britain. The esc...
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n] - a stairway whose steps move continuously on a circulating belt
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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 a contract that relates an increase or decrease i...
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moving staircase noun a stairway whose steps move continuously on a circulating belt
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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 passage. The first escalator was exhibited in Paris...
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a continuously moving stairway on an endless loop for carrying passengers up or down. · a means of rising or descending, increasing or decreasing, etc., esp. by stages: the social escalator. · See
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