Usually means: Heat engine powered by steam.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word steam engine:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. steam engine: Merriam-Webster
  2. steam engine: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. steam engine: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. steam-engine, steam-engine, steam engine: Collins English Dictionary
  5. steam engine: Vocabulary.com
  6. steam-engine, steam engine: Wordnik
  7. steam-engine, steam engine: Wiktionary
  8. steam engine: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. steam engine: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. steam-engine, steam engine: Dictionary.com
  11. Steam Engine, Steam-engine, Steam engine, The steam engine: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Steam engine: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. steam engine: Rhymezone
  14. steam engine: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. steam-engine: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. steam engine: FreeDictionary.org
  17. steam engine: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. steam-engine, steam engine: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Steam-engine, steam engine: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. steam engine: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See steam_engines as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (steam engine)

noun:  A piston engine driven by steam (as contrasted, for example, with a steam turbine).
noun:  Any heat engine that uses steam as its primary working fluid to do mechanical work.
noun:  (especially British) A steam locomotive.

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