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Wankel engine

Wankel engine noun: a rotary internal combustion engine, without pistons, using instead a triangular rotor in an epitrochoid-shaped housing.

Noun

Wankel engine (plural Wankel engines)

  1. A rotary internal combustion engine, without pistons, using instead a triangular rotor in an epitrochoid-shaped housing.

Wankel engine meaning in Tamil

Wankel engine in Tamil

வங்க்கெல் எந்திரம்

Forms of Wankel engine

pluralWankel engines

Origin of Wankel engine

From the name of the inventor, engineer Felix Wankel.

Questions about Wankel engine

What does Wankel engine mean?
Wankel engine means a rotary internal combustion engine, without pistons, using instead a triangular rotor in an epitrochoid-shaped housing.
What is Wankel engine in Tamil?
Wankel engine in Tamil is வங்க்கெல் எந்திரம். See Wankel engine meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is Wankel engine?
Wankel engine is a noun.
What is the plural of Wankel engine?
The plural of Wankel engine is Wankel engines.

Words near Wankel engine in the dictionary

  1. wankathon
  2. wankathons
  3. Wanke
  4. wanked
  5. wanked off
  6. Wankel engine
  7. Wankel engines
  8. wanker
  9. wanker's cramp
  10. wankerdom
  11. wankered

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Wankel engine (page history and authors); wankel 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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