Diesel

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Diesel \Diesel\, Diesel engine \Die"sel en`gine\ or Diesel motor
  \Die"sel mo`tor\ (d[=e]"zel). [After Dr. Rudolf Diesel, of
     Munich, the inventor.]
     A type of internal-combustion engine in which the air drawn
     in by the suction stroke is so highly compressed that the
     heat generated ignites the fuel (usually a heavy oil), the


     fuel being automatically sprayed into the cylinder under
     pressure. The Diesel engine has a very high thermal
     efficiency.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Diesel
       n 1: German engineer (born in France) who invented the diesel
            engine (1858-1913) [syn: {Rudolf Diesel}, {Rudolf
            Christian Karl Diesel}]
       2: an internal-combustion engine that burns heavy oil [syn: {diesel
          engine}, {diesel motor}]

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  DIESEL
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