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internal-combustion engine

internal-combustion engine is the alternative form of internal combustion engine.

Meaning of internal combustion engine

Noun

internal combustion engine (plural internal combustion engines)

  1. A piston or a rotary heat engine directly powered by the products of intermittent combustion of a fuel.
  2. A heat engine in which intermittent or the continuous burning of a fuel takes place inside a combustion chamber; the resulting pressurized gas acts directly on the engine to do useful work, such as a piston engine, gas turbine, jet engine or rocket.

Forms of internal-combustion engine

pluralinternal-combustion engines

Questions about internal-combustion engine

What is internal-combustion engine the alternative form of?
Internal-combustion engine is the alternative form of internal combustion engine.

Words near internal-combustion engine in the dictionary

  1. Internal Revenue Code
  2. internal rhyme
  3. internal rhymes
  4. internal sandhi
  5. internal stress
  6. internal-combustion engine
  7. internal-combustion engines
  8. internal-combustion-engined
  9. internalin
  10. internalins
  11. internalisation

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