internal combustion engine
nounDefinition of internal combustion engine
: a heat engine in which the combustion that generates the heat takes place inside the engine proper instead of in a furnace
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Electric cars actually predate the internal combustion engine, and have been around since before the US Civil War. — Gene Berdichevsky For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, "The electric car revolution will require us to build better batteries," 14 Aug. 2019 By 1917, there were only 50,000 electric vehicles registered, compared with 3.5 million internal combustion engine cars. — Dan Albert, Vox, "Driverless cars are coming. We’ll miss the thrill of the ride.," 21 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'internal combustion engine.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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