gas engine

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   an internal-combustion engine similar to a gasoline engine but using natural gas instead of gasoline vapor

   Broaderinternal-combustion engine

Questions about gas engine

What does gas engine mean?

gas engine means "an internal-combustion engine similar to a gasoline engine but using natural gas instead of gasoline vapor".

Is gas engine a common word?

gas engine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.