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Stirling engine

Stirling engine noun: a heat engine of the external combustion piston engine type.

Noun

Stirling engine (plural Stirling engines)

  1. A heat engine of the external combustion piston engine type.

Stirling engine meaning in Tamil

Stirling engine in Tamil

ஸ்டிர்லிங் பொறி

Forms of Stirling engine

pluralStirling engines

Origin of Stirling engine

Named for inventors Rev. Robert Stirling and his brother James Stirling.

Questions about Stirling engine

What does Stirling engine mean?
Stirling engine means a heat engine of the external combustion piston engine type.
What is Stirling engine in Tamil?
Stirling engine in Tamil is ஸ்டிர்லிங் பொறி. See Stirling engine meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is Stirling engine?
Stirling engine is a noun.
What is the plural of Stirling engine?
The plural of Stirling engine is Stirling engines.

Words near Stirling engine in the dictionary

  1. stirless
  2. stirlessly
  3. stirlessness
  4. Stirling
  5. Stirling City
  6. Stirling engine
  7. Stirling engines
  8. Stirling number
  9. Stirling number of the second kind
  10. Stirling numbers
  11. Stirling numbers of the second kind

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Stirling engine (page history and authors); stirling engine (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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