Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A rotary internal-combustion engine in which a triangular rotor turning in a specially shaped housing performs the functions allotted to the pistons of a conventional engine, thereby allowing great savings in weight and moving parts.
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- noun A
rotary internal combustion engine , without pistons, using instead anepitrochoid -shaped housing.
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- noun a rotary engine that is a four-stroke internal-combustion engine without reciprocating parts
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Felix Wankel, (1902–1988), German engineer.]
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