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PRONUNCIATION OF COMPOUND ENGINE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COMPOUND ENGINE

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Compound engine is a noun.
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WHAT DOES COMPOUND ENGINE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Compound engine

A compound engine is an engine that has more than one stage for recovering energy from the same working fluid, with the exhaust from the first stage passing through the second stage, and in some cases then on to another subsequent stage or even stages. Originally invented as a means of making steam engines more efficient, the compounding of engines by use of several stages has also been used on internal combustion engines and continues to have niche markets there. The stages of a compound engine may be either of differing or of similar technologies, for example: ▪ In a turbo-compound engine the exhaust gas from the cylinders passes through a turbine, the two stages being dissimilar. ▪ In a compound steam locomotive the steam passes from the high pressure cylinder or cylinders to the low pressure cylinder or cylinders, the two stages being similar. ▪ In a triple expansion steam engine the steam passes through three successive cylinders of increasing size and decreasing pressure. Such engines were the most common marine engines in the golden age of steam. These examples and compound turbines are the main but not the only uses of compounding in engines, see below.

Definition of compound engine in the English dictionary

The definition of compound engine in the dictionary is a steam engine in which the steam is expanded in more than one stage, first in a high-pressure cylinder and then in one or more low-pressure cylinders. Other definition of compound engine is a reciprocating engine in which the exhaust gases are expanded in a turbine to drive a turbocharger.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COMPOUND ENGINE

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WORDS THAT END LIKE COMPOUND ENGINE

compression-ignition engine
diesel engine
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fire engine
fuel injection engine
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heat engine
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Stirling engine
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Synonyms and antonyms of compound engine in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «compound engine» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COMPOUND ENGINE

Find out the translation of compound engine to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of compound engine from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «compound engine» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

复合式发动机
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

motor compuesto
570 millions of speakers

English

compound engine
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

यौगिक इंजन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

محرك مركب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

соединение двигателя
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

motor composto
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

যৌগিক ইঞ্জিন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Moteur compound
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Enjin kompaun
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Verbundmaschine
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

複合エンジン
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

복합 엔진
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Senyawa mesin
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

động cơ hợp chất
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கலவை இயந்திரம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कंपाउंड इंजिन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Bileşik motor
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

motore compound
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

silnik związek
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

з´єднання двигуна
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

motor compus
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ένωση του κινητήρα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

saamgestelde enjin
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kompoundmotor
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sammensatte motor
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of compound engine

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COMPOUND ENGINE»

The term «compound engine» is used very little and occupies the 152.873 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COMPOUND ENGINE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about compound engine

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COMPOUND ENGINE»

Discover the use of compound engine in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to compound engine and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The compound engine
^B. F. Isherwood, in an exhaustive review of a compound engine test in the Jour Franklin Inst. for October, 1885, points out, page 268, that the heat units consumed per hour per horsepower were almost identical, and that no economy of fuel ...
Frederick Rollins Low, 1900
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A short treatise on the compound engine
From this we can see that for a Compound Engine to exert the same power as a single cylinder condensing engine with the same number of expansions in both cases, the condensing cylinder of the Compound Engine requires to be equal in  ...
John Turnbull (jun, engineer.), 1873
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A Treatise on the Compound Steam Engine in Two Parts
THE WOOLF COMPOUND ENGINE WITHOUT RECEIVER. THE compound engine—whatever diversity of opinion may be held by engineers and others as to its merits as an economical expansive engine—has attracted towards itself a very  ...
John Turnbull (jr.), Stillman Williams Robinson, 1883
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Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office
In a power economizing system, a source of steam supply, a plurality of engines one of which is a compound engine, a steam superheater and connections whereby the exhaust steam from all engines except the compound engine is led  ...
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American Steam Locomotive
cylinders. In a typical nineteenth century compound engine, steam enters the high-pressure cylinder at roughly 170 psi, expands, and is then exhausted into the low-pressure cylinder at roughly SO psi where it expands again and exhausts into ...
Brian Solomon, 1998
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Modern American Marine Engines, Boilers and Screw ...
23 Compound Engine, Saving by Use of 3o-32 Compound Engine, the Cylinders of 21 Compound Engine, Theory of, practically and thoroughly explained 20-27 Compound Engine, What it is 21 Compound Engines and Boilers of Pacific Mail ...
Emory Edwards, 1881
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Annual Report ...
5, compound engine, cylinders 22"-4o" x 26". " " 6, compound engine, cylinders 2 2 "-40" x 26". " " 7, compound engine, cylinders 2o"-4o" x 28". 8, compound engine, cylinders 2o"-4o" x 28". " " 9, (Steam Lighter), compound engine, cylinders ...
New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Company, 1913
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Report
DERRICK: compound engine, cylinders compound engine, cylinders compound engine, cylinders compound engine, cylinders compound engine, cylinders compound engine, cylinders compound engine, cylinders compound engine, ...
New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Company, 1911
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Materials of Corporation Finance
5, compound engine, cylinders 22"-- 40" x 26". " " 6, compound engine, cylinders 22"^0" x 26". " " 7, compound engine, cylinders 20"~4O" x 28". " " 8, compound engine, cylinders 20"^W" x 28". " " 9, (Steam Lighter), compound engine, cylinders ...
Charles William Gerstenberg, 1915
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The engineer's practical guide, and the working of the steam ...
221 Horizontal Engines 221 Horizontal Cylinders, apart and in contact Marine Engines — large Dimensions 222 Novel Compound Engine — strange Claim set up Compound Engine — Geared Class Positions of the Cranks Theory of ...
Joseph Hopkinson (and co.), 1875

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COMPOUND ENGINE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term compound engine is used in the context of the following news items.
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Cedar Valley Memories 20th annual Steam Power Show set Aug. 8 …
Beginning at 2 p.m. each day, a demonstration of the 1912 Reeves 40-140 Cross Compound engine pulling the 1910 John Deere 14-bottom ... «Mason City Globe Gazette, Jun 15»
2
Jim McKee: What The Lincoln Star, The Lincoln Country Club and …
It was announced that the mill would erect a frame building immediately and had ordered a 200-horsepower compound engine to operate a ... «Lincoln Journal Star, Mar 15»
3
Black American History (5)
William H. Johnson invented a successful device dead center in motion—one for a compound engine and another for a water boiler. Joseph ... «Black Voice News, Mar 15»
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Huge locomotives ply area railways in 1915 - Almanac Jan. 17, 2015
100 years ago: Big engines: "At present the largest locomotive reported to be in use is a huge compound engine which measures 120 feet ... «lehighvalleylive.com, Jan 15»
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'Fantastic' turn-out for Birkenhead Festival of Transport
Philip Owsten sits on his single-crank compound engine during Birkenhead Festival Of Transport. Picture: Paul Heaps. Buy this photo. «Wirral Globe, Sep 14»
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Cedar Valley Memories 19th annual Steam Power Show this weekend
... a 1922 Advance-Rumley, the 1912 Reeves 40-140 Cross Compound engine, a 1910 Phoenix Caterpillar log hauler and a 1878 Blumentritt ... «Mason City Globe Gazette, Aug 14»
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Cedar Valley Memories 19th annual Steam Power Show set Aug. 9 …
On Saturday and Sunday, beginning at 2 p.m., a special demonstration of the 1912 Reeves 40-140 Cross Compound engine pulling the 1910 ... «Mason City Globe Gazette, Jun 14»
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Museum trips enhanced by work of model pioneers
... or Elder and Company's compound engine for the steamship Zealandia of 1879. The manufacturers were then asked to provide copies of the ... «Scotsman, May 14»
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Govan: A shipbuilding history
The yard was founded in 1864 by William Elder, a talented marine engineer who developed the compound engine which transformed ... «BBC News, Nov 13»
10
Airplanes propelled Fort native's career
The final design was a turbo compound engine, able to capture energy from the exhaust. It spun a turbine to extract energy that's normally ... «Daily Union, Nov 13»

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