heat engine

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Noun

heat engine (plural heat engines)

1. (thermodynamics) Any device which converts heat energy into mechanical work, by moving heat from a source to a sink.

Hyponyms

• Carnot engine
• drinking bird

Derived terms

• Carnot heat engine

Translations

device for converting heat

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Finnish: lämpökone Georgian: თბოძრავა (tboʒrava), თბური ძრავა (tburi ʒrava), სითბური ძრავა (sitburi ʒrava) German: Wärmekraftmaschine f Polish: silnik cieplny m Romanian: motor termic n Russian: теплова́я маши́на (ru) f (teplovája mašína) Ukrainian: теплови́й двигу́н m (teplovýj dvyhún)

See also

• information engine