"piston engine" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: piston engines [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} piston engine (plural piston engines)
  1. Any of several types of engine having cylinders containing reciprocating pistons, in which a crankshaft is turned by pistons moving up and down within cylinders; many internal combustion engines and many steam engines have such a mechanism. Synonyms: reciprocating engine Hyponyms: gas engine (english: usually hyponymous), steam engine (english: usually hyponymous), Stirling engine Coordinate_terms: gas turbine, internal-combustion engine, internal combustion engine (english: often hypernymous), jet engine, rotary engine, steam turbine, turbine Translations (engines having cylinders containing reciprocating pistons): motor d'explosió [masculine] (Catalan), 活塞發動機 (Chinese Mandarin), 活塞发动机 (huósāi fādòngjī) (Chinese Mandarin), 往復式發動機 (Chinese Mandarin), 往复式发动机 (wǎngfùshì fādòngjī) (Chinese Mandarin), stempelmotor [common-gender] (Danish), zuigermotor [masculine] (Dutch), mäntämoottori (Finnish), moteur à explosion (French), Kolbenmaschinen (German), Kolbenmotor [masculine] (German), motore a pistoni (Italian), ピストンエンジン (pisuton'enjin) (Japanese), motor de explosão (Portuguese), поршнево́й дви́гатель (poršnevój dvígatelʹ) [masculine] (Russian), kolvmotor [common-gender] (Swedish)

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      "word": "mäntämoottori"
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      "sense": "engines having cylinders containing reciprocating pistons",
      "word": "Kolbenmaschinen"
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "engines having cylinders containing reciprocating pistons",
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      "sense": "engines having cylinders containing reciprocating pistons",
      "word": "motore a pistoni"
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      "sense": "engines having cylinders containing reciprocating pistons",
      "word": "ピストンエンジン"
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      "sense": "engines having cylinders containing reciprocating pistons",
      "word": "motor de explosão"
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      "sense": "engines having cylinders containing reciprocating pistons",
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