combustion engine

English

Noun

combustion engine (plural combustion engines)

an engine that uses the combustion of fuel to produce work (movement)

Hypernyms

engine

Hyponyms

external combustion engine
- steam engine
- Stirling engine
internal combustion engine

Translations

engine that uses the combustion of fuel to create work

Dutch: verbrandingsmotor (nl) m
Finnish: polttomoottori (fi)
French: moteur à combustion (fr) m, moteur thermique (fr) m
German: Verbrennungsmotor (de) m
Polish: silnik spalinowy m
Spanish: motor de combustión (es) m
Tagalog: liyabing likhisog

See also

piston engine

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