piston
Piston , from Old High German kolbo "club", stands for:
- Pistons (botany) , the shape of a flower or fruit cluster
- Flask (vessel) , spherical or conical glass vessel
- Piston (technology) , the moving part in the cylinder of a piston engine
- Piston (weapon technology) , the rear part of the stock of handguns
- Olfactory bulb , a structure in the forebrain and part of the rhinencephalon; in casual language also the nose itself
- Mace , medieval weapon
Piston is a geographical name:
Mountains:
- Piston (Velburg) , 557 m, in the Franconian Alb on the Hohenfels military training area near Velburg , Neumarkt district in the Upper Palatinate, Bavaria
- Piston (Lengfeld) , 489 m, in the Upper Palatinate Forest near Lengfeld , town of Neunburg vorm Wald, Schwandorf district, Bavaria
- Piston (Unterauerbach) , 464 m, in the Upper Palatinate Forest near Unterauerbach , municipality of Schwarzach near Nabburg, Schwandorf district, Bavaria
- Piston (Kleiner Odenwald) , 408.9 m, in the Kleiner Odenwald near Moosbrunn , municipality of Schönbrunn, Rhein-Neckar district, Baden-Württemberg
Place:
- Piston (Wiggensbach) , wasteland of the Wiggensbach market , Oberallgäu district, Bavaria
Piston is the family name of the following people:
- Emil Kolben (1862–1943), Czech engineer and founder of the mechanical engineering company ČKD
- Hans Werner Kolben (1922–1944), Czechoslovak German-speaking poet
See also:
Wiktionary: piston - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
