stationary engine

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noun

an engine mounted in a fixed position, as one used for driving generators, compressors, etc.

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Origin of stationary engine

First recorded in 1830–40

Words nearby stationary engine

statin, stating, station, station agent, stationary, stationary engine, stationary engineer, stationary front, stationary orbit, stationary point, stationary state

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How to use stationary engine in a sentence

It was formerly usual to adopt the condensing engine in mills, and wherever a stationary engine was required.
A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine|Robert H. Thurston
What are considered the greatest improvements on the stationary engine in the last forty years?
Farm Engines and How to Run Them|James H. Stephenson
In 1880 he began to commercialize a two-cycle stationary engine.
Automobile Biographies|Lyman Horace Weeks
He arrived at the mouth of the creek, up which he had located the pop-popping of a stationary engine a half hour later.
The Red Lure|Roy J. Snell

The superintendent ran over to where a night engineer almost dozed at his post beside a stationary engine.
The Young Engineers in Arizona|H. Irving Hancock

British Dictionary definitions for stationary engine

stationary engine

noun

an engine that remains in a fixed position, esp one in a building that drives generators or other machinery

Derived forms of stationary engine

stationary engineer, noun

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