reciprocating engine
any engine employing the rectilinear motion of one or more pistons in cylinders.
Origin of reciprocating engine
1- Also called displacement engine, piston engine.
Words Nearby reciprocating engine
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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. FiskeThe reciprocating engine-room is noisy and full of turmoil: the turbine room is weirdly still by comparison.
The Romance of War Inventions | Thomas W. CorbinA 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 WilliamsThe first reciprocating engine depended on this to do the actual work.
Motors | James Slough Zerbe
British Dictionary definitions for reciprocating engine
an engine in which one or more pistons move backwards and forwards inside a cylinder or cylinders
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