Usually means: Engine where fuel burns internally.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word internal combustion engine:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. internal combustion engine: Merriam-Webster
  2. internal combustion engine: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. internal-combustion engine: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. internal-combustion engine, internal-combustion engine: Collins English Dictionary
  5. internal-combustion engine: Vocabulary.com
  6. internal combustion engine: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. internal-combustion engine, internal combustion engine: Wiktionary
  8. internal-combustion engine: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. internal-combustion engine: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. internal-combustion engine, internal combustion engine: Dictionary.com
  11. Internal Combustion Engine, Internal-combustion engine, Internal combustion engine: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. internal-combustion engine: Rhymezone
  13. internal-combustion engine: FreeDictionary.org
  14. internal-combustion engine: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. internal-combustion engine: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. internal combustion engine: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. internal-combustion engine, internal combustion engine: Encyclopedia

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

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Internal Combustion Engine: Glossary of Air Pollution Terms
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Energy Terms (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (internal combustion engine)

noun:  A piston or a rotary heat engine directly powered by the products of intermittent combustion of a fuel.
noun:  A heat engine in which intermittent or the continuous burning of a fuel takes place inside a combustion chamber; the resulting pressurized gas acts directly on the engine to do useful work, such as a piston engine, gas turbine, jet engine or rocket.

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