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wankel engine
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun wankel engine has 1 sense
- 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
OXFORD DICTIONARY
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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