wankel engine

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Noun Phrase

wan=kel en=gine

WORDNET DICTIONARY

wankel engine(n = noun.artifact) epitrochoidal engine, wankel rotary engine - a rotary engine that is a four-stroke internal-combustion engine without reciprocating parts; Array

is a kind of rotary engine

wankel engine, n. a rotary internal-combustion engine with a continuously rotated and eccentrically pivoted nearly triangular shaft.

Etymology

F. Wankel, Ger. engineer d. 1988

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