Meaning of internal-combustion-engined | Babel Free

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Adjective. [C2]

Examples

“A post-war development of great importance is the rapidly extending use in Great Britain of the internal-combustion-engined farm tractor, which is proving invaluable to the farmer in ploughing, mowing, cultivating, cutting and binding, rolling and harrowing; […]”

“Locomobile was such a success that it found a market in England in 1900, but in 1903 it was dropped in England in favor of the internal-combustion-engined Oldsmobile.”

“It is well known that internal-combustion-engined vehicles (ICEVs) have rather low on-the-road efficiencies (at present 20 to 25%, at best), but their overall performance is in fact even lower when account is taken of the energy used in the extraction, transport and refining of the oil and then in the delivery of the petrol.”

CEFR level