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four-cycle
[ fawr-sahy-kuhl, fohr- ]
adjective
- noting or pertaining to an internal-combustion engine in which a complete cycle in each cylinder requires four strokes, one to draw in air or an air-fuel mixture, one to compress it, one to ignite it and do work, and one to scavenge the cylinder.
four-cycle
adjective
- See two-strokerelating to or designating an internal-combustion engine in which the piston makes four strokes for every explosion Equivalent term (in Britain and certain other countries)four-stroke Compare two-stroke
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Example Sentences
At the top is shown the torque diagram of a single-cylinder motor of the four-cycle type.
The average compression pressure of a two- or four-cycle engine of the ordinary type, is from 60 to 70 pounds per square inch.
Gas-engines, of the four-cycle type, such as are industrially employed, will here be principally considered.
Some of the matters discussed were the four-cycle engine, carburetion, transmission and differential, and the storage battery.
The greater number of engines used in automobiles to-day are of the kind known as the Otto cycle, or four-cycle, engine.
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