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Internal combustion engine

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internal-combustion engine

–noun
an engine of one or more working cylinders in which the process of combustion takes place within the cylinders.

Origin:
1880–85
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internal-combustion engine

Any engine powered by burning fuel inside it (for example, a standard automobile engine). Internal-combustion engines normally burn fossil fuels and therefore are a major source of air pollution. (See smog.)

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