Meaning

2 senses
  1. A piston or a rotary heat engine directly powered by the products of intermittent combustion of a fuel.

    Verbrennungsmotor

    дви́гатель вну́треннего сгора́нияdvígatelʹ vnútrennevo sgoránija

    двигу́н вну́трішнього згоря́нняdvyhún vnútrišnʹoho zhorjánnja

  2. A heat engine in which intermittent or the continuous burning of a fuel takes place inside a combustion chamber; the resulting pressurized gas acts directly on the engine to do useful work, such as a piston engine, gas turbine, jet engine or rocket.

Examples

3 sentences
  1. Tom explained how an internal-combustion engine worked.

  2. Internal combustion engines burn a mixture of fuel and air.

    deIn Verbrennungsmotoren wird ein Treibstoff-Luft-Gemisch verbrannt. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. Tom is explaining the way an internal-combustion engine works.

    deTom erklärt die Funktionsweise eines Verbrennungsmotors. — Melang

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
a piston or a rotary heat engine:
Русский
By meaning 1
a piston or a rotary heat engine:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a piston or a rotary heat engine:

Forms

plural: internal combustion engines

Word family

1 related words

See also

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