Wankel engine

English

Etymology

From the name of the inventor, engineer Felix Wankel.

Noun

Wankel engine (plural Wankel engines)

A rotary internal combustion engine, without pistons, using instead an epitrochoid-shaped housing.

Translations

type of engine

Catalan: motor Wankel m
Dutch: wankelmotor (nl) m
Finnish: wankelmoottori (fi)
French: moteur Wankel (fr) m
German: Wankelmotor (de) m
Portuguese: motor rotativo m
Spanish: motor Wankel m

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