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Definition: AIR ENGINE |
AIR ENGINE1. An engine driven by heated or by compressed air. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Instrument | Instrument, organ, tool, implement, utensil, machine, engine, lathe, gin, mill; air engine, caloric engine, heat engine. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
It uses the expansion of compressed air to drive the pistons in a modified piston engine. The only exhaust gas is cold air (-15º Celsius), which is also used for air conditioning in a car. The source for air is a pressurized carbon-fiber tank holding air at 3,000 p.s.i (20 MPa). Air is delivered to the engine via a pretty much conventional injection system.
This engine is used to power an urban car with room for five passengers and a range of about 100 to 200 miles, depending on traffic conditions. The main advantages are: no roadside emissions, low cost technology, engine uses food oil for lubrication (just about 1 liter, changes only every 30,000 miles) and integrated air conditioning. Range could be quickly tripled, since there are already carbon fiber tanks which have passed safety standards holding gas at 10,000 p.s.i. (70 MPa).
The tanks may be refilled in about three minutes at a service station, or in a few hours at home plugging the car into the electric grid via an on-board compressor. The cost of refilling is about $3.
However, the air engine and refueling system, considered as a system, are not pollution free, as the electric power generation will have its own environmental costs.
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Air engine."
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "AIR ENGINE": Compressed-air engine, hot-air engine. | |
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| Language | Translations for "AIR ENGINE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | motor aviacioni (aeroengine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | авиомотор. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αεροκινητήρασ (aeroengine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | légmotor, légkompresszor (air pump). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | greie aer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | airay engineay aeromotor (wind generator, windmill). (various references) авиамотор (air-engine). (various references) motor na vazdušno hlađenje. (various references) motor de aviación (aircraft engine). (various references) авіамотор. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-i-i-n-n-r" | |
-1 letter: arginine. | |
-2 letters: aginner, earning, engrain, ginnier, grannie, ingrain, nearing, raining, reginae, reining. | |
-3 letters: airing, earing, engine, enrage, gainer, genera, ginner, inaner, narine, reagin, regain, regina. | |
-4 letters: aerie, agene, agree, anger, eager, eagre, garni, genie, genii, genre, grain, green, inane, inner, iring, ragee, ranee, range, regna, reign, renig, renin. | |
-5 letters: agee, ager, agin, airn, earn, eger, erne, gaen, gain, gane, gear, gene, gien, girn, gnar, gran, gree, grin, inia, near, nene, nine, rage, ragi, rain, rang, rani, rein, ring. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-i-i-n-n-r" | |
+2 letters: gratineeing, legionnaire, reexamining. | |
+3 letters: anorexigenic, energization, entertaining, eternalizing, garnisheeing, generalising, generalizing, graininesses, greenmailing, intenerating, interleaving, interweaving, legionnaires, remaindering. | |
+4 letters: antiforeigner, astringencies, cantilevering, credentialing, disheartening, energizations, exterminating, externalising, externalizing, interlayering, interpleading, interregional, interrelating, intransigence, peregrinating, peregrination, regimentation, reinnervating, reintegrating, reintegration, renegotiating, renegotiation, reorientating. | |
+5 letters: antiallergenic, carcinogenesis, credentialling, decentralizing, demineralizing, denuclearizing, entertainingly, generalisation, generalization, intermediating, interpellating, intransigeance, intransigences, mountaineering, overexplaining, parenthesizing, peregrinations, predesignating, predestinating, redintegrating, redintegration, regimentations, reintegrations, renegotiations, underachieving. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 49 52 45 4E 47 49 4E 45 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01001001 01010010 00100000 01000101 01001110 01000111 01001001 01001110 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A I R   E N G I N E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0049 0052 0045 004E 0047 0049 004E 0045 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3543522394841434839 |
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