Usually means: Fuel burns, powers engine internally.
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  1. internal combustion: Vocabulary.com
  2. internal-combustion: Wordnik
  3. internal combustion: Wiktionary
  4. internal-combustion: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. Internal-combustion, internal-combustion, internal combustion: Dictionary.com
  6. Internal Combustion (short story), Internal-combustion, Internal combustion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. internal combustion: Rhymezone
  8. internal-combustion, internal combustion: FreeDictionary.org
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noun:  The process where fuel is burned within an engine such as a diesel engine, producing power directly as opposed to externally such as in a steam engine.

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