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Meanings of internal-combustion engine in English

Portuguese
motor de combustão

A heat engine in which combustion occurs inside the engine rather than in a separate furnace; heat expands a gas that either moves a piston or turns a gas turbine.

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motor de combustão
Usage of internal-combustion engine in English
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The stillness of just-before-dawn was broken by the distant rumble of an internal-combustion engine.
Operation Terror
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The internal-combustion engine killed it, but watery-eyed nostalgia has given rise to modern-day steampunks' fanciful creations.
Wired
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One night he gave the boys an explanation of the relation of weight to horsepower in the internal-combustion engine.
The Brighton Boys with the Flying Corps
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You mean an internal-combustion engine?
The Lost World
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Tells how the internal-combustion engine works, traces the use of ethanol in cars, which began at the turn of the century.
The new yorker
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There isn't much in the way of details about the drivetrain, but it's a gas-electric hybrid with a small internal-combustion engine.
Wired
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Toyota has 70 percent of the U.S. market for vehicles powered by a combination of an internal-combustion engine and electric motor.
Reuters
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The first three years would be devoted to developing a light internal-combustion engine, and the remaining two years to making a flying machine.
The Mastery of the Air
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Now that the internal-combustion engine had arrived, the Wrights at once commenced the construction of an aeroplane which could be driven by mechanical power.
The Mastery of the Air
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Total power for the combined internal-combustion engine and electric motor is an impressive 340 horsepower and a Bentley-like 516lb-ft. of torque.
BBC
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It smells of petroleum and internal-combustion engines, the smell of wicked waste.
Jem
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The first is the quest for cleaner alternatives to internal-combustion engines.
Reuters
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The Krinpit had no internal-combustion engines to punish their auditory nerves.
Jem
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Both will use internal-combustion engines on the surface; batteries will power electric thrusters underwater.
Wired
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Internal-combustion engines were used in road and desert transport.
Star Maker
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Those outputs must mitigate a Mini which is 145kg heavier than its internal-combustion engined siblings.
The South African
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