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Definition of Heat engine

1. Noun. Any engine that makes use of heat to do work.

Definition of Heat engine

1. Noun. (thermodynamics) Any device which converts heat energy into mechanical work. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Heat Engine

Literary usage of Heat engine

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Steam-engine and Other Heat-engines by James Alfred Ewing (1902)
"working direct, as a true heat-engine, and the other reversed, as what we might call a heat-pump—would result in a transfer of heat from the cold body G to ..."

2. The Steam-engine and Other Heat-engines by James Alfred Ewing (1897)
"working direct, as a true heat-engine, and the other reversed, ... In other words, when the source and receiver of heat are given a reversible heat-engine ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"... it is customary to think of the conversion as being performed by a suitable type of heat-engine; for this conception helps to make the problem definite, ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The practical drawbacks to employing air as the working substance of a heat-engine are so great that its use has been very limited. ..."

5. Thermodynamics of the Steam-engine and Other Heat-engines by Cecil Hobart Peabody (1898)
"THE steam-engine is, at the present time, the most important heat-engine. When of large size and properly designed and managed it has at least as good ..."

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