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HEAT ENGINE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any engine that makes use of heat to do work
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("heat engine" is a kind of...):
engine (motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "heat engine"):
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 engine (a 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)
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