Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
type of rotary internal combustion engine, 1961, from name of German engineer Felix Wankel (1902-1988).
Wikipedia
Wankel may refer to:
- Wankel engine, a type of internal combustion engine using an eccentric rotary design instead of reciprocating pistons
Usage examples of "wankel".
The Racers run smoothly, with a fine-tuned stride like a Wankel rotary engine.
Racers run smoothly, with a fine-tuned stride like a Wankel rotary engine.
It is just as true of diesels, two-cycles, free-piston setups, and Wankel rotary combustion engines as it is of the conventional RPIC engine.
RPIC, diesel, Wankel, and other Otto cycle engines is the pulsed nature of the combustion in such engines.
Not enough to guarantee anything outside the driving limitations of the Wankel, but who drove more than two hundred miles these days?
Could he actually use an oxygen-breathing Wankel rotary engine to power a tiny generator on an airless planet?