The Collaborative International Dictionary
Internal-combustion \In*ter"nal-com*bus"tion\, a. (Mach.) Designating, or pertaining to, any engine (called an
Usage examples of "internal-combustion".
All the other thetes, coarcted into the tacky little claves belonging to their synthetic phyles, turning up their own mediatrons to drown out the Senderos, setting off firecrackers or guns he could never tell them apart and a few internal-combustion hobbyists starting up their primitive full-lane vehicles, the louder the better.
It was clearly the best internal-combustion engine that had been designed and, by 1890, it was the only one.
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.
And she could have driven out to his research site three times a week in her goddamned three-ton internal-combustion fossil-fueled car and fucked his brains out on a backseat the size of a living-room couch.
Andre Charbonneau (1820-1887) and Rudolf Diesel (1858-1920) established the workability of internal-combustion prime movers (using a flame-ignition and compression-ignition system respectively).
With an internal-combustion engine, there wouldn't have to be a large water boiler within which to make steam.
Most of the cars, however, were old steam turbines, and a few, even older, seemed to be internal-combustion models, more suited to a museum or a junkyard than a parking lot.
The chemists discarded the most volatile fraction (gasoline) as an unfortunate waste product--until it was found to be an ideal fuel for internal-combustion engines.
Beneath the steam was a witches' brew of petrochemicals - enough to power for a million years all the internal-combustion engines that mankind had dyer built.