piston

Other forms of piston

plural

pistons·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about piston

What does piston mean?

piston means "United States neoclassical composer (1894-1976)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in piston?

piston has 2 syllables: pis-ton. The stress falls on "pis". In IPA it is /ˈpɪstən/.

What is another word for piston?

Close synonyms include Walter Piston, plunger. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is piston a common word?

piston is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.