Meanings of reciprocating engine in English

The generator was not turned by the main turbine, but by a small reciprocating engine.

She was built in 1944, reciprocating engine, single screw, and she'd be pushed to make thirteen knots downhill.

A special use of these integrators is for finding the total work done by a fluid pressure reciprocating engine.

Of these engines there was one 400-horse power Westinghouse reciprocating engine, driving a directly connected dynamo which was specially made for my purposes.

Smith's engine was a compound turbine, reciprocating engines having proved extravagant in fuel.

With Caterpillar, its traditional competency is diesel reciprocating engines.

The reciprocating engines drove the wing-propellers and the turbine a mid-propeller, making her a triple-screw vessel.

The engine room was divided into two sections, one given to the reciprocating engines and the other to the turbines.

In addition, it warned that sales of its higher margin products, including turbines and large reciprocating engines, would fall in 2010.

"Yes, that is a double-acting or reciprocating engine of a more perfect type," her father returned.

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