| 单词 | boxer engine |
| 释义 | > as lemmasboxer engine b. A type of internal combustion engine with horizontally opposed pistons that move in and out towards the centrally located crankshaft at the same time. Chiefly as a modifier, esp. in boxer engine. ΚΠ 1935 Techn. Memorandum (U.S. National Advisory Committee Aeronautics) No. 776 15 It suggests the design of the so-called ‘end-to-end’ or ‘boxer’ engine, the most simple and inexpensive version of which corresponds to the German patent No. 485889. 1961 Marine Engineer & Naval Architect May 602/1 A further variant of the Vee engine is the so-called Boxer engine in which the rows of the vee have been spreadeagled so that they are horizontally opposed. 2008 Indianapolis Star 13 Jan. (Early ed.) (Indy Sunday section) 20/1 The engine is a surprise, too: an opposed twin ‘boxer’, much like on a BMW motorcycle or the older Citroen 2CV popular with French farmers. < as lemmas |
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