![]() An external combustion engine EC engine is a heat engine where an internal working fluid is heated by combustion of an external source, through the engine wall or a heat exchanger. The fluid then, by expanding and acting on the mechanism of the engine produces motion and usable work. |
![]() The Engine Infrastructure provides access to specialized equipment and labs, both on-site and through a network of partner facilities, giving portfolio companies the tools and space necessary to work efficiently and economically. The Engine Network facilitates the creation of long-term mutually beneficial relationships between founders, startups, corporates, government, strategic partners, and others. |
![]() The steam engine in old-fashioned trains and steam boats is the best example of an external combustion engine. The fuel coal, wood, oil in a steam engine burns outside the engine to create steam, and the steam creates motion inside the engine. |
![]() A miniature railway engine. From Middle English engyn, from Anglo-Norman engine, Old French engin skill, cleverness, war machine, from Latin ingenium innate or natural quality, nature, genius, a genius, an invention, in Late Latin a war-engine, battering-ram, from ingenitum, past participle of ingignÅ to instil by birth, implant, produce in. |
![]() Noun The car has a four-cylinder engine. tanks, planes, and other engines of war The tax cut could be an engine of economic growth. Recent Examples on the Web: Noun And the Russian navy keeps a squadron of twin- engine Su-30 fighters in Crimea allegedly for the purpose of protecting the fleet. |
![]() The engine block contains the cylinders. In engines with more than one cylinder they are usually arranged either in 1 row straight engine or 2 rows boxer engine or V engine 3 rows are occasionally used W engine in contemporary engines, and other engine configurations are possible and have been used. |