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Definition of Internal-combustion engine
1. Noun. A heat engine in which combustion occurs inside the engine rather than in a separate furnace; heat expands a gas that either moves a piston or turns a gas turbine.
Specialized synonyms: Diesel, Diesel Engine, Diesel Motor, Four-stroke Engine, Four-stroke Internal-combustion Engine, Gas Engine, Gasoline Engine, Petrol Engine, Outboard, Outboard Motor, Radial Engine, Rotary Engine, Reciprocating Engine, Rotary Engine, Valve-in-head Engine
Terms within: Block, Cylinder Block, Engine Block, Force Feed, Force-feed Lubricating System, Lubricating System, Pressure Feed, Pressure-feed Lubricating System, Poppet, Poppet Valve, Self-starter, Supercharger
Generic synonyms: Heat Engine
Group relationships: Motorboat, Powerboat, Automotive Vehicle, Motor Vehicle
Definition of Internal-combustion engine
1. Noun. (alternative form of internal combustion engine) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Internal-combustion Engine
Literary usage of Internal-combustion engine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Short History of Science by William Thompson Sedgwick, Harry Walter Tyler (1917)
"This is what actually happens in the internal-combustion engine. The present
enormous extent of the use of such engines for motors of all kinds, ..."
2. Heat and Thermodynamics by Francis M. Hartmann (1911)
"The power delivered by an internal combustion engine is determined in precisely
the same manner as is that of a steam engine. This has been fully described ..."
3. Industrial Arts Index by H.W. Wilson Company (1914)
"Mach 19:39-40 В '12 Increase of output of internal-combustion engine» and a new
six-stroke cycle engine. Industrial locomotive driven by a crude oil engine. ..."
4. Internal-combustion Engines: Their Principles and Applications to Automobile by Wallace Ludwig Lind (1920)
"Any one of these fuels may be used efficiently in the cylinder of an internal-combustion
engine. In all cases the power obtained from any fuel first ..."
5. Elements of Steam and Gas Power Engineering by Andrey Abraham Potter, James Park Calderwood (1920)
"The Otto internal combustion engine cycle requires four strokes of the ...
The action of an internal combustion engine working on the four-stroke Otto cycle ..."
6. Transactions of the International Engineering Congress, 1915 (1916)
"Now, at the end of its period of forty years of growth, the internal combustion
engine stands in a position fairly commensurate with that occupied by the ..."
7. The Aeroplane: A Concise Scientific Sudy by Arthur Fage (1915)
"Starting and Reversing — Evolution of the Internal Combustion Engine.—Industrial
Oil and Gas Engines.—Large- power Engines. ..."
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