NOUN
- an internal-combustion engine having cylinders arranged radially around a central crankcase
- an internal-combustion engine in which power is transmitted directly to rotating components
How To Use rotary engine In A Sentence
- Mazda's new RX-8 sports car is unusual in its use of the rotary engine invented by Felix Wankel: a triangular rotor inside a combustion chamber that's a particular case of epitrochoid. Mazda: rotary engine comeback
- With a rotary engine, the crankshaft is fixed, while the cylinders, crankcase and all the other bits rotate around it.
- Invented in 1951, the rotary engine is a revolutionary concept in internal combustion.
- Some day soon, even non-science-fiction readers might come to believe that a moonshot is possible, or a rotary engine, or a heavier-than-air flying machine, or a submersible vehicle capable of sailing under the Antarctic icecap! MIND MELD: Is Science Fiction Antithetical to Religion?
- He produced a steam pressure gauge to record pressure in a cylinder and a rotary engine which could drive various forms of machinery.
- By this time Sadler was interested in steam engines: in 1791 he obtained a patent for an unsuccessful rotary engine.
- It is safe for turbos, oxygen sensors, and catalytic converters and is suitable for use in fuel-injected, carbureted, throttle-body, and rotary engines.
- See also the articles on Hemi engines, rotary engines and two-stroke engines.
- In 1782, Watt developed a rotary engine that could turn a shaft and drive machinery to power the machines to spin and weave cotton cloth.
- Invented in 1951, the rotary engine is a revolutionary concept in internal combustion.
