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adjective

Self-contained adj.

Having self-control; reserved; uncommunicative; wholly engrossed in one's self.

(Mach.) Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself.

Self-contained steam engine.

(a)

A steam engine having both bearings for the crank shaft attached to the frame of the engine.

(b)

A steam engine and boiler combined and fastened together; a portable steam engine.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Self-contained" Quotes from Famous Books

... for Mysa, she seems to think only of her father. The Hebrew girl is a great comfort to her, for while the example of their mistress and the shouts of the populace have terribly scared the other maids, and they go about the house in fear and trembling, Ruth is quiet and self-contained as if she were again in her quiet cottage with her grandfather. She greatly comforts and sustains Mysa, and Ameres said to me only this morning that Mysa was fortunate indeed in that Chebron had ...

— The Cat of Bubastes - A Tale of Ancient Egypt • G. A. Henty

... left the room he was apparently, in every respect, his usual self-contained self. However, it was not until the following morning that he so much as thought of the sheaf of papers lying unread in the ...

— Masters of Space • Edward Elmer Smith

... passed placidly away, among her birds and her flowers. Mrs. Carrington had none of the vivacity about her which is so general an attribute of French women. She liked her quiet life, and had little sympathy with her son's restless ambition and devouring discontent. A cold, silent, self-contained woman, she shut herself up in her own occupations, and cared for nothing beyond them. She had the French national taste and talent for needlework, and generally listened to her son, as he talked or read to her, with a piece of elaborate ...

— Run to Earth - A Novel • M. E. Braddon

... soliloquy was cut short by the dull glint of steel within a few inches of his chest—even in the darkness all bayonets seem to possess self-contained luminosity—and a voice hissed, ...

— Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force • Percy F. Westerman

... been, he was a lonely man. Whenever I want a type of perfect human isolation, I shall think of him, as he was in those days, moving remote, self-contained, and alone in the midst ...

— Quite So • Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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