INTERNAL COMBUSTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does internal combustion mean? 

• INTERNAL COMBUSTION (noun)
  The noun INTERNAL COMBUSTION has 1 sense:

1. the combustion of fuel inside a cylinder (as in an internal-combustion engine)

  Familiarity information: INTERNAL COMBUSTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTERNAL COMBUSTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The combustion of fuel inside a cylinder (as in an internal-combustion engine)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("internal combustion" is a kind of...):

burning; combustion (a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light)

 Context examples 

This high-temperature requirement is challenging to operate inside a vehicle, but such temperatures are also reached in conventional internal combustion engines.

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