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autoignite

autoignite verb: to ignite spontaneously.

Verb

autoignite (third-person singular simple present autoignites, present participle autoigniting, simple past and past participle autoignited)

  1. (intransitive) To ignite spontaneously.
    • Ideally, for GCI a premixed charge of gasoline and air is inducted into an engine with a sufficiently high compression ratio to allow the entire cylinder contents to autoignite in rapid succession.2015, David Crolla, Encyclopedia of Automotive Engineering

Forms of autoignite

third-person singular presentautoignites
present participleautoigniting
past participleautoignited
pastautoignited

Origin of autoignite

From auto- + ignite.

Questions about autoignite

What does autoignite mean?
Autoignite means to ignite spontaneously.
What part of speech is autoignite?
Autoignite is a verb.
What is the past tense of autoignite?
The past tense of autoignite is autoignited.

Words near autoignite in the dictionary

  1. autohyponyms
  2. autohyponymy
  3. autoicon
  4. autoicons
  5. autoicous
  6. autoignite
  7. autoignited
  8. autoignites
  9. autoigniting
  10. autoignition
  11. autoignition temperature

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