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n. an engine that uses the combustion of fuel to create work (movement)
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A combustion engine is an engine which generates mechanical power by combustion of a fuel. Combustion engines are of two general types:
- Internal combustion engine
- External combustion engine
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Usage examples of "combustion engine".
However, the greater power-to-weight ratio of the internal combustion engine did maintain a certain degree of interest for ground applications, particularly in armored fighting vehicles.
He coupled his heat pump with the Fischer engine, and asserted that the result would be more powerful than an internal combustion engine of the same size, would never need gasoline (or any other fuel), would not need any oil changes, and would run for 400,000 miles before it wore out.
It was clearly the best internal-combustion engine that had been designed and, by 1890, it was the only one.
By the time the internal combustion engine came along, so much effort had gone into developing automotive steam engines that they remained dominant in all but aeronautical and armored fighting-vehicle applications.
It had happened so quickly it took her a moment to believe she was trapped under an internal combustion engine on the bottom of the ocean.
He could see the bearings and the wrist-pins of the internal-combustion engine of the car, the interior structure of the welds that held the steel plates together, the busy airport outside, and even deep into the ground.
That they have only managed to kill 1,750,000 of us since 1896 when Ford first successfully tested the internal combustion engine on a horseless carriage.
It is really an internal combustion engine of a sort, as the hydrogen flame which runs it burns in the water of the boiler.
It was too dark to see what she was like, but the muffled pulsations of an internal combustion engine were distinctly audible.