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Meaning of diesel engine | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. An internal combustion engine of piston engine type that operates using the Diesel cycle, with diesel fuel being sprayed into the hot, high-pressure air in the combustion chamber at the end of the compression stroke.
  2. Such an engine that burns diesel (diesel fuel).
    usually
  3. a diesel locomotive.

Equivalents

العربية محرك ديزل
Dansk dieselmotor
Deutsch Diesel Dieselmotor
Esperanto dizelmotoro
Español motor diésel
Suomi diesel dieselmoottori naku nokivasara
Français moteur Diesel
Gaeilge inneall díosail
Magyar dízelmotor
Italiano motore Diesel
日本語 ディーゼルエンジン
Lietuvių dyzelis
Nederlands dieselmotor
Polski ropniak silnik wysokoprężny
Português motor a diesel
Română motor diesel
Русский ди́зельный дви́гатель
Svenska dieselmotor
Türkçe dizel motoru
Українська дизель

Examples

“Two Voith-North British hydraulic transmissions are fitted, each connected through a Hardy Spicer cardan shaft to its appropriate diesel engine.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

diesel exhaust diesel exhaust fluid diesel fuel diesel generator diesel knock diesel laundering

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