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Home Dictionary Name: gasoline engineGasoline engine
A kind of internal combustion engine in British countries called usually petrol engine...
Internal combustion
Designating or pertaining to any engine called an Internal combustion engine in which the heat or pressure energy necessary to produce motion is developed in the engine cylinder as by the explosion of a gas and not in a separate chamber as in a steam engine boiler The gas used may be a fixed gas or one derived from alcohol ether gasoline petrol naphtha oil petroleum etc There are three main classes 1 gas engines proper using fixed gases as coal blast furnace or producer gas 2 engines using the vapor of a volatile fluid as the typical gasoline petrol engine 3 oil engines using either an atomized spray or the vapor produced by heat of a comparatively heavy oil as petroleum or kerosene In all of these the gas is mixed with a definite amount of air the charge is composed in the cylinder and is then exploded either by a flame of gas flame ignition now little used by a hot tube tube ignition or the like by an electric spark electric ignition the usual method is gasoline engines or by the hea...
Gasoline
A highly volatile mixture of fluid hydrocarbons obtained mostly from petroleum as also by the distillation of bituminous coal It is used as a fuel for most automobiles and for many other vehicles with internal combustion engines The gasoline of commerce is typically blended with additives to improve its performance in internal combustion engines Gasoline was also used in the early 1900s in making air gas and in giving illuminating power to water gas See Carburetor...
chainsaw
a portable power saw having teeth that are linked to form an endless chain rotated about two pivot points by a power mechanism such as an electric motor or a gasoline engine...
Engine
Engine. As to malicious injuries to engines and machinery, see Malicious Damage Act, 1861, ss. 11, 14, 15; and as to placing wood, etc., on any railway, with intent to obstruct or overthrow any engine, see s. 35. The use of locomotive engines on railways is authorized by the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, s. 86, and regulated by s. 116 of that Act. The Railway Fires Act, 1905, as amended by the Railway Fires Act (1905) Amendment Act, 1923, gives compensation for damage by fires caused by sparks or cinders from railway engines; see Martin v. G.E. Railway, (1912) 2 KB 406; A.-G. v. G.W. Railway, (1924) 2 KB 1. See TRACTION ENGINE and SMOKE....
Engineer
A person skilled in the principles and practice of any branch of engineering as a civil engineer an electronic engineer a chemical engineer See under Engineering n...
Civil Engineer
Civil Engineer. In 1923 the Institution of Civil Engineers was granted a supplemental Royal Charter which gives members and associate members an exclusive right to describe themselves as 'Chartered Civil Engineers.' The term 'engineer' was originally understood to mean military engineer; the word 'civil' was therefore applied to distinguish the institution....
Engineer Corps
In the United States army the Corps of Engineers a corps of officers and enlisted men consisting of one band and three battalions of engineers commanded by a brigadier general whose title is Chief of Engineers It has charge of the construction of fortifications for land and seacoast defense the improvement of rivers and harbors the construction of lighthouses etc and in time of war supervises the engineering operations of the armies in the field...
Engineering
Originally the art of managing engines in its modern and extended sense the art and science by which the properties of matter are made useful to man whether in structures machines chemical substances or living organisms the occupation and work of an engineer In the modern sense the application of mathematics or systematic knowledge beyond the routine skills of practise for the design of any complex system which performs useful functions may be considered as engineering including such abstract tasks as designing software software engineering...
Radial engine
An engine usually an internal combustion engine of a certain type the radial type having several cylinders arranged radially like the spokes of a complete wheel The semiradial engine has radiating cylinders on only one side of the crank shaft...
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