diesel engine

English

Etymology

Named after Rudolf Diesel. More in Wikipedia at diesel engine § History.

Pronunciation

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Noun

diesel engine (plural diesel engines)

2. (mechanical engineering) An internal combustion engine of piston engine type that operates using the Diesel cycle, with diesel fuel being sprayed into the hot, high-pressure air in the combustion chamber at the end of the compression stroke.

   Synonym: diesel motor

   • 1958 April, “British Railways First Main-Line Diesel-Hydraulic Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, page 265:

     Two Voith-North British hydraulic transmissions are fitted, each connected through a Hardy Spicer cardan shaft to its appropriate diesel engine.

   1. (usually automotive, transport) Such an engine that burns diesel (diesel fuel).
4. (rail transport) a diesel locomotive.

   Hypernyms: engine, locomotive < machine

   Hyponyms: diesel-electric, diesel-hydraulic

Translations

type of engine

• Afrikaans: dieselenjin
• Arabic: محرك ديزل
• Azerbaijani: dizel mühərriki
• Belarusian: дызельны рухавік m (dyzjelʹny ruxavik)
• Bulgarian: дизелов двигател m (dizelov dvigatel)
• Catalan: motor dièsel m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 柴油引擎

• Czech: dieselový motor m, vznětový motor m
• Danish: dieselmotor (da) c
• Dutch: dieselmotor (nl)
• Esperanto: dizelmotoro
• Estonian: diiselmootor
• Finnish: dieselmoottori (fi)
• French: moteur Diesel (fr) m
• Galician: motor diésel m
• German: Dieselmotor (de) m, Diesel (de) m
• Greek: κινητήρας ντίζελ m (kinitíras ntízel)
• Hebrew: מְנוֹעַ דִּיזֶל (he) m (menoa dizel)
• Hindi: डीज़ल इंजन (ḍīzal iñjan)
• Hungarian: dízelmotor (hu)
• Icelandic: dísilvél (is) f
• Ido: dizel-motoro
• Indonesian: mesin diesel (id)
• Irish: inneall díosail m
• Italian: motore Diesel m
• Japanese: ディーゼルエンジン (dīzeru-enjin)
• Kazakh: дизель қозғалтқыш (dizel qozğaltqyş)
• Latvian: dīzeļdzinējs m
• Lithuanian: dýzelis m, dyzeli̇̀nis vari̇̀klis
• Malay: enjin diesel
• Malayalam: ഡീസൽ എഞ്ചിൻ (ḍīsal eñciṉ)
• Marathi: डीझेल इंजिन (ḍījhel iñjin)
• Mongolian: дизель хөдөлгүүр (dizelʹ xödölgüür)
• Nepali: डिजेल इन्जिन (ḍijel injina)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dieselmotor m

  Nynorsk: dieselmotor m

• Persian: موتور دیزل
• Polish: silnik wysokoprężny m, silnik o zapłonie samoczynnym m
• Portuguese: motor a diesel m
• Romanian: motor diesel (ro) n
• Russian: ди́зельный дви́гатель m (dízelʹnyj dvígatelʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: dizel motor m, dieselov motor m
• Slovak: naftový motor m
• Spanish: motor diésel m
• Swedish: dieselmotor (sv) c
• Tamil: டீசல் பொறி (ṭīcal poṟi)
• Telugu: డీజిల్ ఇంజన్ (ḍījil iñjan)
• Thai: เครื่องยนต์ดีเซล
• Turkish: dizel motoru (tr)
• Ukrainian: дизельний двигун m (dyzelʹnyj dvyhun)
• Urdu: ڈیزل انجن

diesel locomotive — see diesel locomotive

See also

• petrol engine