| 单词 | internal combustion engine |
| 释义 | > as lemmasinternal combustion engine 2. Combustion of petrol, oil, or other fuel within a closed space inside an engine, with the hot gases produced driving a piston or doing other work inside that space; frequently attributive, esp. in internal combustion engine. Also figurative. Cf. external combustion n. at external adj. and n. Additions. ΚΠ 1853 Minutes Proc. Inst. Civil Engineers 12 337 The air, or mixed air and steam engines, with the internal combustion of the fuel, may be made to imitate animal muscular power. 1884 H. C. F. Jenkin in Heat in Mech. Applic. (Inst. Civil Engin.) (1885) 105 The internal combustion engine..is really the fore-runner of the gas-engine. 1908 Westm. Gaz. 29 Oct. 4/1 Even at this year's show the centre of interest will be an internal-combustion motor. 1932 W. Lewis Filibusters in Barbary i. iii. 15 Dressed as a lady-motorist of the earliest days of the internal-combustion engine. 1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 113/2 What Kipling was to the aggressive British imperialists, these ads are to our domestic economy. They act as a sort of firing spark in the internal combustion engine. 1964 Engineering 2 Oct. 438/2 A method of high energy operation which uses the internal combustion process for its power source. 2010 Wall St. Jrnl. 23 Oct. d4/3 If and when the battery is depleted, the Volt can continue on its way using the internal-combustion engine. < as lemmas |
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