INTERNAL COMBUSTION

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 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)

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