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INTERNAL COMBUSTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does internal combustion mean? 

INTERNAL COMBUSTION (noun)
  The noun INTERNAL COMBUSTION has 1 sense:

1. the combustion of fuel inside a cylinder (as in an internal-combustion engine)play

  Familiarity information: INTERNAL COMBUSTION used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


INTERNAL COMBUSTION (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)


 Context examples 


This high-temperature requirement is challenging to operate inside a vehicle, but such temperatures are also reached in conventional internal combustion engines.

(New, high-energy rechargeable batteries, NSF)



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