Collocations withengine
These are words often used in combination withengine.
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automobile engine
The situation is analogous to automobile engine design : one of the desiderata for an engine is that it should be fuelefficient.
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cam engine
This was partly because of its efficient 49 cc four-stroke over head cam engine with semi-automatic transmission.
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conventional engine
Hybrid electric vehicles use two power sources: a conventional engine and an electric motor.
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diesel engine
Although considerably smaller than aerospace or automotive product development programs, diesel engine design nonetheless exhibits many of the challenges associated with large-scale engineering projects.
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engine block
The new eleven-stage unit for producing an engine block costs £250,000.
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engine builder
It is a first-class marine engine builder which is desperately short of orders.
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engine compartment
In most cars they are located on a plate fixed in the engine compartment or are stamped into the floor adjacent to the driver's seat.
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engine component
Any engine component available over the dealer parts counter was sanctioned for use.
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engine cowling
Specific differences included wheel spats, a redesigned engine cowling molded of fiberglass, and aluminum ailerons and flaps.
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engine failure
Visits by sea often failed because of changeable weather and surf, engine failure, or leaky boats.
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engine manufacturer
Much has been done on the easier problem facing the engine manufacturer.
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engine nacelle
The engine nacelle was also faired into the flaps.
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engine of growth
In the 1960s, there was low confidence in indigenous business as an engine of growth and a felt need for foreign capital's contribution.
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engine overhaul
There is no good reason why it should not have a centralised engine overhaul unit for that service.
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engine repair
The cumulative cost of the bus and truck program, including engine repair expenses, payments to the owners of confiscated vehicles, and expenditures on air quality monitoring, is approaching $7,000,000.
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engine running
There is, for example, the provision of the law that a person shall not leave a motor car stationary with the engine running.
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engine shutdown
Five days beforehand, the same aircraft had demonstrated control system problems, including "undemanded engine shutdown"and"spurious engine fail captions".
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four-cylinder engine
I have looked at all the figures relating to manufacture of a four-cylinder engine and exactly comparable retail prices from the same source.
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four-stroke engine
You do not start a four-stroke engine with a simpler four-stroke engine (made perhaps from only some of the typical parts).
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fuel-injected engine
Further refinement of the aircraft involved a fuel-injected engine, further lightening of the aircraft, and fixed slats to improve all-round performance.
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gas engine
If the tenant does not bolt the gas engine to the floor, it remains his property.
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gasoline engine
Process choices include using human energy to actuate the device as opposed to a battery and electric motor or a gasoline engine.
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hybrid engine
The crusher also has a hybrid engine capable of travelling several miles on one battery charge.
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inboard engine
This sequence of consecutive failures caused the inboard engine and pylon to break free.
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inference engine
The second category for improving efficiency is based on techniques for intelligently querying an inference engine.
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internal combustion engine
A group of children is no more likely to invent an alphabet than it is to invent the internal combustion engine.
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internal engine
The downside to such bio-fuel is its increased upfront cost, and additional stress placed on internal engine components.
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main engine
One of the main engine rooms of renewal of our understanding of late tsarism has come from economic history.
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marine engine
What is the record of the marine engine division?
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modified engine
It brought new features such as a modified engine, ram-air intake and cartridge forks.
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motorcycle engine
Developed in secret over six years, it was the world's first 16-valve liquid-cooled inline four-cylinder motorcycle engine, years ahead of rival manufacturers' efforts.
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outboard engine
According to the interviews, seal and beluga hunts often require long trips, making the operation costs of a canoe with an outboard engine prohibitive.
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petrol engine
I do not think anybody would question that the diesel engine is more efficient than the ordinary petrol engine.
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port engine
Both sets of undercarriage and the port engine were ripped off.
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powerful engine
In both countries social mobility was a powerful engine for the new elite groups in provincial towns.
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radial engine
The flight included 150 km legs over sea, the plane's 3-cylinder radial engine lacking the usual redundant set of spark magnets.
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ramjet engine
This variant has been test-fired and uses a solid-fuel ramjet engine.
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rendering engine
A more appropriate approach would be to deliver a highly abstracted description across the net, driving a local interactive rendering engine.
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rocket engine
Now the future of this rocket engine testing station is in doubt, and the reward for their generous and loyal service is uncertainty and the threat of unemployment.
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rotary engine
At the base of the bacterial flagellum, where it enters the cell membrane, a motor protein acts as a rotary engine.
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six-cylinder engine
This reduced size six-cylinder engine had a four-bearing crankshaft an air-cleaner-heater and a fume-consumer head.
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starboard engine
About 15 minutes into the flight, the pilot reported a fire in the starboard engine.
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supercharged engine
Running a supercharged engine with the fuel and materials technology of the day would never have lasted the duration.
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turbo engine
If one were to get the turbo engine, then the turbo boost gauge would take the place of the voltmeter.
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turbocharged engine
The name was derived from the 2.5-liter turbocharged engine which produced and of torque.
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two-stroke engine
One must consider the efficiency or otherwise of a two-stroke engine by looking at the movement up as well as the movement down.
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