Usually means: Heat-driven, closed-cycle external engine.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. Stirling engine, Stirling engine: Merriam-Webster
  2. Stirling engine: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Stirling engine: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Stirling engine: Wiktionary
  5. Stirling engine: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  6. Stirling engine: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. stirling engine: Dictionary.com
  8. Stirling Engine, Stirling engine: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Stirling engine: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. Stirling engine: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. Stirling engine: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Stirling Engine: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Stirling engine)

▸ noun:  A heat engine of the external combustion piston engine type.

Similar:
internal combustion, hot bulb, hot tube, Otto cycle, ether engine, dry heater, oil stove, oilstove, Joule's cycle, steam accumulator, more...

Types:
hot air, steam, gas, piston, rotary, external combustion, more...

Phrases:
Applications of the Stirling engine, Solar-powered Stirling engine, more...

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Similar:
internal combustion, hot bulb, hot tube, Otto cycle, ether engine, dry heater, oil stove, oilstove, Joule's cycle, steam accumulator, more...

Types:
hot air, steam, gas, piston, rotary, external combustion, more...

Phrases:
Applications of the Stirling engine, Solar-powered Stirling engine, more...



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