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steam-engine

steam-engine is the alternative form of steam engine.

Meaning of steam engine

Noun

steam engine (plural steam engines)

  1. Any heat engine that uses steam as its primary working fluid to do mechanical work.
    1. (usually) A piston engine driven by steam.
  2. (UK, especially) A steam locomotive.

Forms of steam-engine

pluralsteam-engines

Questions about steam-engine

What is steam-engine the alternative form of?
Steam-engine is the alternative form of steam engine.

Words near steam-engine in the dictionary

  1. steam-boats
  2. steam-crack
  3. steam-cracked
  4. steam-cracking
  5. steam-cracks
  6. steam-engine
  7. steam-engines
  8. steam-hauled
  9. steam-heat
  10. steam-heated
  11. steam-heating

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Adapted from Wiktionary: steam-engine (page history and authors); steam engine (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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