Meanings of heat engine in English

Well, it's going to change the whole heat engine of the planet, he said.

We were just driving past the Solar Pond-theequivalent of the boiler in a conventional heat engine.

Considered as a heat engine, the gas engine is now twice as efficient as the very best modern steam engine.

He could not but wonder where Admiral Selwyn obtained his information, knowing that a theoretically perfect heat engine would only give 23 per cent.

They listened-allbut the chauffeur, that philistine, who opened the hood and gingerly felt of the heated engine.

Thus for the first time is pointed out the true reason why compound engines are economical heat engines.

In his time heat engines were not yet very common, and no one had reflected much on their theory.

Photo: Heartless Machine Humans, like all mammals, are heat engines; surviving means having to continually cool off, like panting dogs.

Similarly the name "Gas Engine" masks the fact of the motors so called being really fire or heat engines.

Nolan, of the University of Miami, described hurricanes as "naturally occurring heat engines," that feed off the solar energy stored in warm ocean waters.