Reciprocating engine with cylinders arranged radially from a single crankshaft.
An internal-combustion engine having cylinders arranged radially around a central crankcase.
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Examples for "rotary engine"
Examples for "rotary engine"
1The Gnome rotary engine was first used with success at this meeting.
2After three months the rotary engine was finished to the inventor's complete satisfaction.
3The fifth claim was for a rotary engine, and need not be quoted here.
4A hydrogen rotary engine could also use gasoline as fuel, so would need two fuel tanks, though.
5The vehicle is propelled by eight enclosed fans, each driven by a rotary engine, controlled by redundant computers.
1The connecting rods of this engine were of virtually the same type as is employed on nearly all modern radial engines.
2'Dragon Fly 1A 'is a nine-cylinder radial engine having one overhead inlet and two overhead exhaust valves per cylinder.
3Certain American radial engines were made previous to 1914, the principal being the Albatross six-cylinder engines of 50 and 100 horse-powers.
Translations for radial engine