twin-engine

[twin-en-juhn]

adjective

1. having two engines of equal power as prime movers.

   a twin-engine airplane.

Word History and Origins

Origin of twin-engine¹

First recorded in 1930–35

Example Sentences

The aircraft involved in this incident was a Beechcraft B200 Super King Air, a small, twin-engine propeller plane that has been in production since the 1970s.

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Saturday that a twin-engine Beechcraft with three people aboard had crashed about 200 to 300 yards offshore, near the historic Point Pinos Lighthouse in Pacific Grove, the Coast Guard said in a news release Sunday.

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Coast Guard received a report at 12:45 p.m. that a twin-engine Cessna 414 had crashed around three miles west of Point Loma.

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The yo-yoing import tariffs imposed by President Trump have been toying with the massive twin-engine economies of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

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The twin-engine Beechcraft 95-B44 airplane crashed about a mile from the Catalina Airport just after 8 p.m. on Oct.

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