autoignite
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editautoignite (third-person singular simple present autoignites, present participle autoigniting, simple past and past participle autoignited)
- (intransitive) To ignite spontaneously.
- 2015, David Crolla, Encyclopedia of Automotive Engineering[1]:
- Ideally, for GCI a premixed charge of gasoline and air is inducted into an engine with a sufficiently high compression ratio to allow the entire cylinder contents to autoignite in rapid succession.