spark plug
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spark plug
noun
1.
a device designed to fit in each cylinder of a gasoline-powered internal-combustion engine and to produce the electric spark for igniting the mixture of gasoline and air.
2.
Informal. a person who leads, inspires, or animates a group.
Origin:
1900–05
1900–05
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Spark plug
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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Science Dictionary
spark plug
(click for larger image in new window) A device in the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine that ignites the fuel mixture by means of an electric spark. Spark plugs consist of two electrodes that are separated by an insulator except at their tips. When high voltage electricity is fed to one electrode, it jumps across the gap from one tip to the other as a spark. The voltage required to generate a spark is directly proportional to the size of the gap; in a car engine it is about 18,000 volts. |
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Example sentences
When the piston returns upward in the compression cycle, the spark plug emits a spark to ignite the fuel-air mixture.
In a spark-ignition engine, the mixture is ignited by a spark from the spark plug, releasing heat.
The fuel is directed straight at the spark plug, rather than at the cylinder wall.
If spark plug is wet with fuel, the engine could be flooded.
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