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piston engine en · NOUN

Meanings

1. Any of several types of engine having cylinders containing reciprocating pistons, in which a crankshaft is turned by pistons moving up and down within cylinders; many internal combustion engines and many steam engines have such a mechanism.

Forms

Coordinates

jet engine · steam turbine · internal combustion engine · rotary engine · gas turbine · turbine · internal-combustion engine

Hyponyms

gas engine · steam engine · Stirling engine

Synonyms

reciprocating engine

Translations (16)

cmn 活塞發動機 /活塞发动机 (engines having cylinders containing reciprocating pistons) · fr moteur à explosion (engines having cylinders containing reciprocating pistons) · ja ピストンエンジン (engines having cylinders containing reciprocating pistons) · ru поршнево́й дви́гатель (engines having cylinders containing reciprocating pistons) · pl silnik tłokowy (engines having cylinders containing reciprocating pistons) · pt motor de explosão (engines having cylinders containing reciprocating pistons) · da stempelmotor (engines having cylinders containing reciprocating pistons) · cmn 往復式發動機 /往复式发动机 (engines having cylinders containing reciprocating pistons) · de Kolbenmaschinen (engines having cylinders containing reciprocating pistons) · de Kolbenmotor (engines having cylinders containing reciprocating pistons) · no stempelmotor (engines having cylinders containing reciprocating pistons) · sv kolvmotor (engines having cylinders containing reciprocating pistons) · fi mäntämoottori (engines having cylinders containing reciprocating pistons) · ca motor d'explosió (engines having cylinders containing reciprocating pistons) · it motore a pistoni (engines having cylinders containing reciprocating pistons) · nl zuigermotor (engines having cylinders containing reciprocating pistons)