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external-combustion

/ik-stur-nl-kuhm-buhs-chuhn/US // ɪkˈstɜr nl kəmˈbʌs tʃən //

外燃,外燃型,外燃式,外部燃烧

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : noting or pertaining to an engine, as a steam engine, in which fuel ignition takes place outside the cylinder, turbine, or the like, in which heat energy is transformed into mechanical force.

Examples

  • While preaching D.A.R.E. in schools, we made a drug out of external validation.

  • The Navy and Marine Corps versions of the F-35 have differing configurations and rely on an external gun pod.

  • However useful they might be for external purposes, they will always be dangerous internally.

  • He wants to know every external detail, even if the escape is ultimately to be shot on a sound stage.

  • After all, the Prince of necessity had to focus on defeating his external enemies.

  • She had expected personality, magnetism, as a compensation for nature's external economies.

  • However, she was not seeking refreshment or help from any source, either external or from within.

  • In a strict sense, of course, no child's drawing is absolutely spontaneous and independent of external stimulus and guidance.

  • Lombard Street has thus shown that it has fully learnt the only lesson that the external side of the crisis had to teach it.

  • Lost as he was to most external things, Hugh roused himself to some surprise at the name of the hotel.