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A four stroke cycle for internal combustion engines consisting of the following operations First stroke suction into cylinder of explosive charge as of gas and air second stroke compression ignition and explosion of this charge third stroke the working stroke expansion of the gases fourth stroke expulsion of the products of combustion from the cylinder This is the cycle invented by Beau de Rochas in 1862 and applied by Dr Otto in 1877 in the Otto Crossley gas engine the first commercially successful internal combustion engine made...
Four cycle
A four stroke cycle as the Otto cycle for an internal combustion engine...
Otto engine
An engine using the Otto cycle...
Joules cycle
The cycle for the air engine proposed by Joule In it air is taken by a pump from a cold chamber and compressed adiabatically until its pressure is eqal to that of the air in a hot chamber into which it is then delivered thereby displacing an equal amount of hot air into the engine cylinder Here it expands adiabatically to the temperature of the cold chamber into which it is finally exhausted This cycle reversed is used in refrigerating machines...
Motor cycle
Motor cycle, means a mechanically propelled vehicle, not being an invalid carriage with less than four wheels, the weight of which unladen does not exceed 410 kilogram, Halsbury's Law of England, 4th Edn., Vol. 40(1), para 13 at p. 23.Motor cycle. Road Traffic Act,1930, s. 2 (1) (f): mechanically propelled vehicles (not classified as invalid carriages) with less than four wheels and the weight unladen does not exceed 8 cwt. A driving licence can be obtained at sixteen, but a driving test must be passed and also insurance against third-party risks must be taken out; for offences, etc., see, generally, the Act.It means a two-wheeled motor vehicle, inclusive of any detachable side-car having an extra wheel, attached to the motor vehicle. [Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (59 of 1988), s. 2 (27)]...
Carnots cycle
An ideal heat engine cycle in which the working fluid goes through the following four successive operations 1 Isothermal expansion to a desired point 2 adiabatic expansion to a desired point 3 isothermal compression to such a point that 4 adiabatic compression brings it back to its initial state...
Cycling
The act art or practice of riding a cycle esp a bicycle or tricycle...
Cycle
Cycle [fr., Kukyos, Gk.], a measure of time, a space in which the same revolutions begin again; a periodical space of time. See BICYCLE...
Indiction, cycle of
Indiction, cycle of, a mode of computing time by the space of fifteen years, instituted by Constantine the Great; originally the period for the payment of certain taxes. Some of the charters of King Edgar and Henry III. Are dated by indictions, Jac. Law Dict....
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...
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