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Undershot vs Backshot - What's the difference?

undershot | backshot | coordinate terms |

Backshot is a coordinate term of undershot.



As adjectives the difference between undershot and backshot

is that undershot is powered by water flowing from below while backshot is having the water introduced just behind the summit, combining the advantages of breastshot and overshot systems, since the full amount of the potential energy released by the falling water is harnessed as the water descends the back of the wheel.

As a verb undershot

is past tense of undershoot.

undershot

English

Verb

(head)
  • (undershoot)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (of a waterwheel) powered by water flowing from below
  • (zoology) Having the lower incisor teeth projecting beyond the upper ones, as in the bulldog.

    • Related terms

    * overshot

    backshot

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (of a water wheel) Having the water introduced just behind the summit, combining the advantages of breastshot and overshot systems, since the full amount of the potential energy released by the falling water is harnessed as the water descends the back of the wheel.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chiefly, sport)
  • (geology)

    • Coordinate terms

    * foreshot, midshot * undershot