Usually means: Cylindrical components driving engine motion.
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  1. pistons: Merriam-Webster
  2. pistons: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Pistons, pistons: Vocabulary.com
  4. Pistons, pistons: Wordnik
  5. pistons: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. pistons: Wiktionary
  7. pistons: Dictionary.com
  8. pistons: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Pistons: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Pistons: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Pistons: Encyclopedia

(Note: See piston as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Piston)

noun:  (mechanics) A solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder, and moves under pressure (as in an engine) or displaces fluid (as in a pump)
noun:  (music) A valve device in some brass instruments for changing the pitch
verb:  (intransitive) To move up and down or in and out like a piston.
noun:  A surname.
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