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INTERNAL COMBUSTION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The combustion of fuel inside a cylinder (as in an internal-combustion engine)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("internal combustion" is a kind of...):
burning; combustion (a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light)