piston engine

English

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Noun

piston engine (plural piston engines)

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.

Synonyms

• reciprocating engine

Hyponyms

• gas engine (usually hyponymous)
• steam engine (usually hyponymous)
• Stirling engine

Coordinate terms

• gas turbine
• internal-combustion engine, internal combustion engine (often hypernymous)
• jet engine
• rotary engine
• steam turbine
• turbine

Translations

engines having cylinders containing reciprocating pistons

Catalan: motor d'explosió m Chinese: Mandarin: 活塞發動機 / 活塞发动机 (huósāi fādòngjī), 往復式發動機 / 往复式发动机 (wǎngfùshì fādòngjī) Danish: stempelmotor c Dutch: zuigermotor (nl) m Finnish: mäntämoottori (fi) French: moteur à explosion (fr) German: Kolbenmaschinen (de), Kolbenmotor m Italian: motore a pistoni Japanese: ピストンエンジン (pisuton'enjin) Norwegian: stempelmotor m Polish: silnik tłokowy m Portuguese: motor de explosão Russian: поршнево́й дви́гатель m (poršnevój dvígatelʹ) Swedish: kolvmotor (sv) c

References

• “piston engine”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• piston engine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia