reciprocating engine

noun

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

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

First recorded in 1815–25

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

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.

The first reciprocating engine depended on this to do the actual work.

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