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 Dumb Interpretatively Evaluated String Expression Language (AutoCAD)
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