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Wankel Engine

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Noun

1. epitrochoidal engine, wankel engine, wankel rotary engine

a rotary engine that is a four-stroke internal-combustion engine without reciprocating parts

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Wankel Engine

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noun
a type of four-stroke internal-combustion engine without reciprocating parts. It consists of one or more approximately elliptical combustion chambers within which a curved triangular-shaped piston rotates, by the explosion of compressed gas, dividing the combustion chamber into three gastight sections

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Wankel Engine

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a rotary internal-combustion engine having a three-lobed rotor and requiring fewer parts than a comparable piston-operated engine: it is less efficient and less powerful than reciprocating engines

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Wankel Engine

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n.
A rotary internal-combustion engine in which a triangular rotor turning in a specially shaped housing performs the functions allotted to the pistons of a conventional engine, thereby allowing great savings in weight and moving parts.

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