two-cycle

[ too-sahy-kuhl ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

noting or pertaining to an internal-combustion engine in which two strokes are required to complete a cycle two-stroke cycle, one to admit and compress air or an air-fuel mixture and one to ignite fuel, do work, and scavenge the cylinder.

two-cycle

See four-stroke
relating to or designating an internal-combustion engine whose piston makes two strokes for every explosion Also called (in Britain and certain other countries)two-stroke See four-stroke

First recorded in 1900–05

It developed a nice, unpleasant two-cycle throb that threatened to shake the ship apart.

The steady two-cycle throb did more damage than it would normally have done aboard a non-experimental ship.

It certainly cannot become a perfect mixture in the time of a stroke of a high-speed motor of the two-cycle class.

Two-cycle motors have been designed which combine the principles of action of both the155 two- and three-port types.

The exhaust gases of the ordinary two-cycle motor pass out of the exhaust port as it is uncovered by the descent of the piston.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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