combustion engine

English

Noun

combustion engine (plural combustion engines)

1. an engine that uses the combustion of fuel to produce work (movement)

Hypernyms

• engine

Hyponyms

• external combustion engine
  • steam engine
  • Stirling engine
• internal combustion engine

Translations

engine that uses the combustion of fuel to create work

• Dutch: verbrandingsmotor (nl) m
• Finnish: polttomoottori (fi)
• French: moteur à combustion (fr) m, moteur thermique (fr) m
• German: Verbrennungsmotor (de) m
• Polish: silnik spalinowy m
• Spanish: motor de combustión (es) m
• Tagalog: liyabing likhisog

See also

• piston engine