Dictionary.com

Popular Searches

 Thesaurus.com

continuous-expansion engine

American  
[kuhn-tin-yoo-uhs-ik-span-shuhn] / kənˈtɪn yu əs ɪkˈspæn ʃən /

noun

  1. a steam engine in which a high-pressure cylinder is partly exhausted into a low-pressure cylinder during each stroke.

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.