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combustor

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com⋅bus⋅tor

[kuhm-buhs-ter]
–noun Aeronautics.
the apparatus in a ramjet or other jet engine for initiating and sustaining combustion, consisting of the igniter, fuel-injection system, combustion chamber, and flameholder.

Origin:
1940–45; combust(ion) + -or 2
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com·bus·tor   (kəm-bŭs'tər)   
n.  A combustion chamber and its igniters, injectors, and other related apparatus in a jet engine or gas turbine.
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