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Wankel engine

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Noun
  1. 1
    A rotary internal combustion engine, without pistons, using instead an epitrochoid-shaped housing.
  2. 2
    a rotary engine that is a four-stroke internal-combustion engine without reciprocating parts wordnet

Etymology

From the name of the inventor, engineer Felix Wankel.

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