two-stroke

adjective

relating to or designating an internal-combustion engine whose piston makes two strokes for every explosion: US and Canadian word: two-cycle Compare four-stroke

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How to use two-stroke in a sentence

This style of motorcycle has a smaller motor, which is usually of the two-stroke type, single cylinder.
The Wonder Book of Knowledge | Various
American design yields two apparently successful two-stroke cycle aero engines.
A History of Aeronautics | E. Charles Vivian
On the other hand internal-combustion two-stroke-cycle piston engines had been built and used successfully in a limited way.
The Wright Brothers' Engines and Their Design | Leonard S. Hobbs.
A 3-cylinder two-stroke cycle engine therefore has the same capacity to do work as a 6-cylinder four-stroke cycle engine.
The First Airplane Diesel Engine: Packard Model DR-980 of 1928 | Robert B. Meyer
Some engines are worked on the "two-stroke-cycle" principle; in this case, there are only two strokes for each impulse.
The Library of Work and Play: Mechanics, Indoors and Out | Fred T. Hodgson

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