Meaning of internal-combustion-engined | Babel Free

Definitions

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