Usually means: Converts thermal energy to mechanical.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. heat engine: Merriam-Webster
  2. heat engine: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. heat engine: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. heat engine: Collins English Dictionary
  5. heat engine: Vocabulary.com
  6. heat engine: Wordnik
  7. heat engine: Wiktionary
  8. heat engine: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Heat engine, heat engine: Dictionary.com
  10. Heat Engine, Heat engine: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. heat engine: Rhymezone
  12. heat engine: FreeDictionary.org
  13. heat engine: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. heat engine: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. heat engine: Encyclopedia

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

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Energy Terms (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)
  4. HEAT ENGINE: Power Engineering

(Note: See heat_engines as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (heat engine)

noun:  (thermodynamics) Any device which converts heat energy into mechanical work, by moving heat from a source to a sink.

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