piston engine

English

Noun

piston engine (plural piston engines)

1. Any of several types of engine having cylinders containing reciprocating pistons, in which a crankshaft is turned by pistons moving up and down within cylinders; many internal combustion engines and many steam engines have such a mechanism.

Synonyms

• reciprocating engine

Hyponyms

• gas engine (usually hyponymous)
• steam engine (usually hyponymous)
• Stirling engine

 

Coordinate terms

• gas turbine
• internal-combustion engine, internal combustion engine (often hypernymous)
• jet engine
• rotary engine
• steam turbine
• turbine

 

Translations

engines having cylinders containing reciprocating pistons

• Catalan: motor d'explosió m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 活塞かっそく發動はつどう機き／活塞かっそく发动机つくえ (huósāi fādòngjī), 往復おうふく式しき發動はつどう機き／往复式しき发动机つくえ (wǎngfùshì fādòngjī)

• Danish: stempelmotor c
• Dutch: zuigermotor (nl) m
• Finnish: mäntämoottori (fi)
• French: moteur à explosion (fr)
• German: Kolbenmaschinen (de), Kolbenmotor m
• Italian: motore a pistoni
• Japanese: ピストンエンジン (pisuton'enjin)
• Portuguese: motor de explosão
• Russian: поршнево́й дви́гатель m (poršnevój dvígatelʹ)
• Swedish: kolvmotor (sv) c

References

• “piston engine”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• piston engine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia