steam engine

See also: steam-engine

English

Noun

steam engine (plural steam engines)

1. A piston engine driven by steam (as contrasted, for example, with a steam turbine).
2. Any heat engine that uses steam as its primary working fluid to do mechanical work.
3. (British) A steam locomotive.

Related terms

• steam power
• steam tractor
• steam locomotive
• steam shovel
• steam roller

Translations

piston engine driven by steam

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蒸汽機／蒸汽机 (zh) (zhēngqìjī), 蒸汽机 (zh) (zhēngqìjī)

• Crimean Tatar: buv köçürici
• Czech: parní stroj (cs) m, parostroj m
• Danish: dampmaskine c
• Finnish: höyrykone (fi), mäntähöyrykone
• French: machine à vapeur (fr) f
• German: Dampfmaschine (de) f
• Greek: ατμομηχανή (el) f (atmomichaní)
• Gujarati: વરાળયંત્ર (varāḷyantra)
• Italian: motore a vapore (it) m, motrice (it) f, locomotiva a vapore f
• Japanese: 蒸気機関 (ja) (じょうききかん, jōki kikan)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dampmaskin m

  Nynorsk: dampmaskin m or f

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• Polish: maszyna (pl) f parowa (pl)
• Portuguese: máquina a vapor f
• Romanian: mașină cu abur f
• Russian: парова́я маши́на (ru) f (parovája mašína), парово́й дви́гатель (ru) m (parovój dvígatelʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: einnsean-smùide m
• Serbo-Croatian: parni stroj m, parni stapni stroj m
• Spanish: máquina de vapor (es) f
• Swedish: ångmaskin (sv) c
• Tagalog: likhisog tubngaw
• Turkish: buhar makinesi (tr)

any steam-driven heat engine

• Belarusian: параво́з m (paravóz)
• Crimean Tatar: buv köçürici
• Czech: parní stroj (cs) m, parostroj m
• Danish: dampmaskine c
• Dutch: stoommachine (nl) f
• Estonian: aurumasin
• Finnish: höyrykone (fi)
• French: machine à vapeur (fr) f
• Georgian: ორთქლის მანქანა (ortklis mankana)
• German: Dampfmaschine (de) f
• Greek: ατμομηχανή (el) f (atmomichaní)
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• Hungarian: gőzgép (hu)
• Interlingua: machina de vapor
• Italian: motrice (it) f, locomotiva a vapore f
• Portuguese: máquina a vapor f
• Romanian: mașină cu abur
• Russian: парова́я маши́на (ru) f (parovája mašína)
• Scottish Gaelic: einnsean-smùide m
• Serbo-Croatian: parni stroj m, parostroj (sh) m
• Spanish: máquina de vapor (es) f
• Turkish: buhar makinesi (tr)

steam locomotive — see steam locomotive

See also

• traction engine