| 单词 | heat engine |
| 释义 | heat engine (once / 218877 pages) n WORD FAMILY heat engine: heat engines USAGE EXAMPLES“That heat engine drives plate tectonics, the creation and destruction of the surface of our planet.” New York Times(Oct 10, 2016) They are central parts of a planetary heat engine that continually rearranges the Earth’s two dozen or so large crustal plates. New York Times(Feb 08, 2016) Now, physicists in Germany have made what could be the world’s smallest heat engine using just a single particle: an ion of calcium. Science Magazine(Oct 21, 2015) n any engine that makes use of heat to do work Hypo|Hyper external-combustion engine a heat engine in which ignition occurs outside the chamber (cylinder or turbine) in which heat is converted to mechanical energy ICE, internal-combustion enginea 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 diesel, diesel engine, diesel motoran internal-combustion engine that burns heavy oil four-stroke engine, four-stroke internal-combustion enginean internal-combustion engine in which an explosive mixture is drawn into the cylinder on the first stroke and is compressed and ignited on the second stroke; work is done on the third stroke and the products of combustion are exhausted on the fourth stroke gas enginean internal-combustion engine similar to a gasoline engine but using natural gas instead of gasoline vapor gasoline engine, petrol enginean internal-combustion engine that burns gasoline; most automobiles are driven by gasoline engines outboard, outboard motorinternal-combustion engine that mounts at stern of small boat radial engine, rotary enginean internal-combustion engine having cylinders arranged radially around a central crankcase reciprocating enginean internal-combustion engine in which the crankshaft is turned by pistons moving up and down in cylinders rotary enginean internal-combustion engine in which power is transmitted directly to rotating components steam engineexternal-combustion engine in which heat is used to raise steam which either turns a turbine or forces a piston to move up and down in a cylinder valve-in-head engineinternal-combustion engine having both inlet and exhaust valves located in the cylinder head engine motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work |
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