reciprocating engine


noun
  1. any engine employing the rectilinear motion of one or more pistons in cylinders.

Origin of reciprocating engine

1
First recorded in 1815–25

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How to use reciprocating engine in a sentence

  • The first steam engine that was really efficient was the reciprocating engine produced by Watt.

    Invention | Bradley A. Fiske
  • The reciprocating engine-room is noisy and full of turmoil: the turbine room is weirdly still by comparison.

  • A special use of these integrators is for finding the total work done by a fluid pressure reciprocating engine.

  • Fig. 17 is a skeleton diagram of the simplest form of reciprocating engine.

    How it Works | Archibald Williams
  • The first reciprocating engine depended on this to do the actual work.

    Motors | James Slough Zerbe

British Dictionary definitions for reciprocating engine

reciprocating engine

noun
  1. an engine in which one or more pistons move backwards and forwards inside a cylinder or cylinders

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