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• Pushrod
  ...'', also called '''pushrod engine''' or '''I-head engine''' is a type of [[piston engine]] that places the [[camshaft]] in the [[cylinder block]] (usually be ...es. [[General Motors]] is the world's largest pushrod engine producer with engines such as the [[Buick V6 engine#L32 Supercharged|3800 Series III]] [[Supercha
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• Two stroke
  ...or every engine revolution, instead of every second revolution. Two stroke engines can be arranged to start and run in either direction. Two-stroke engines are used most among the smallest and largest reciprocating powerplants, but
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• Straight engine
  ...fewer [[cylinder head|cylinder heads]] and [[camshaft|camshafts]]. Inline engines are also much smaller in volume than designs like the [[radial engine|radia ...''GM Atlas engine'' family includes straight-4, straight-5, and straight-6 engines.
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• Four-stroke
  ...our ''strokes'', or straight movements alternately, back and forth, of a [[piston]] inside a [[cylinder (engine)|cylinder]]: ...is at its topmost point. On the first downward stroke (''intake'') of the piston, a mixture of [[fuel]] and [[air]] is drawn into the cylinder through the i
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• Four-stroke cycle
  ...our ''strokes'', or straight movements alternately, back and forth, of a [[piston]] inside a [[cylinder (engine)|cylinder]]: ...is at its topmost point. On the first downward stroke (''intake'') of the piston, a mixture of [[fuel]] and [[air]] is drawn into the cylinder through the i
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• Jake brake
  ...ed air in the cylinder preventing it from returning its energy back to the piston and accordingly, the vehicle. ...also muffle the sound of the compression release engine brake. Also, some engines use a butterfly valve in the exhaust and/or stator travel beyond the normal
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• Delta engine
  ...& Son]], and the locomotives produced by [[English Electric]] using these engines, including their [[British Rail DP1|demonstrator locomotive named ''DELTIC' ...ft. Hitherto in the [[Royal Navy]], such boats had been driven by gasoline engines but this fuel is obviously highly flammable and made them very vulnerable t
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• W12
  ...cylinders though none have ever gone into production. All production W12 engines to date (April, 2005) use four banks of three cylinders (two narrow-angle [ ...swagen Group currently produces W12s, based on two of its narrow-angle VR6 engines. The narrow angle of each set of cylinders allows just two camshafts to dr
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• Four stroke cycle
  ...our ''strokes'', or straight movements alternately, back and forth, of a [[piston]] inside a [[cylinder (engine)|cylinder]]: ...s at its uppermost point. On the first downward stroke (''intake'') of the piston, a mixture of fuel and air is drawn into the cylinder through the intake (i
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• Rotary engine
  This article is about a type of piston engine. For internal combustion engines which do not use pistons, see [[pistonless rotary engine]] and [[Wankel eng ...typically had a [[power-to-weight ratio]] advantage over more conventional engines.
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• Cargneluti
  '''Cargneluti''' was an [[Italian]] manufacturer that built engines and [[motorcycles]]. ...ar unique to this engine was that they changed the stroke which caused the piston during the intake stroke to go down faster than during the power stroke.
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• V16
  ...[[V engine|V]] configuration, having 16 [[cylinder (engine)|cylinder]]s. Engines of this number of cylinders are not common. V16 engines have been used in certain luxury and high-performance [[automobile]]s, most
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• Marine engine
  ...|English]] between two meanings of the word "engineer": 'those who operate engines' and 'those who design and construct new items'. ==History of engines==
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• Engine
  ...|English]] between two meanings of the word "engineer": 'those who operate engines' and 'those who design and construct new items'. ==History of engines==
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• Two-stroke cycle
  ...or every engine revolution, instead of every second revolution. Two-stroke engines can be arranged to start and run in either direction. Two-stroke engines are used mostly among the smallest and largest reciprocating powerplants, b
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• Top dead center
  In a [[reciprocating engine]], the '''dead centre''' is the position of a piston in which it is farthest from, or nearest to, the [[crankshaft]]. The former ...tre, or are designed, in the case of [[Engine configuration|multi-cylinder engines]], so that dead centres can never exist on all cranks at the same time. A
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• Pistonless rotary engine
  ...le is about [[internal combustion engine]]s that do not use conventional [[piston]]s. See also [[rotary engine (disambiguation)]] for other uses of this term ...'rotary engine''' is an [[internal combustion engine]] that does not use [[piston]]s in the way a [[reciprocating engine]] does, but instead uses one or more
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• Hemi engine
  ...re neither the hemi engine's inventors nor the first to commercialize hemi engines. ...tomotive engines, shortly after proving the concept of internal combustion engines themselves.
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