Wankel engine

English

Etymology

From the name of the inventor, engineer Felix Wankel.

Noun

Wankel engine (plural Wankel engines)

1. A rotary internal combustion engine, without pistons, using instead an epitrochoid-shaped housing.

Translations

type of engine

• Catalan: motor Wankel m
• Dutch: wankelmotor (nl) m
• Finnish: wankelmoottori (fi)
• French: moteur Wankel (fr) m
• German: Wankelmotor (de) m
• Portuguese: motor rotativo m
• Spanish: motor Wankel m