Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A heat engine driven by a permanently enclosed gas that expands and contracts as it is alternately heated and cooled by an external source of heat and a heat exchanger.
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- noun A
heat engine of the externalcombustion piston engine type.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After the Reverend Robert Stirling, (1790–1878), Scottish clergyman and engineer who invented it.]
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Named for inventors Rev. Robert Stirling and his brother James Stirling.
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