radial engine

1. 1.

   an internal-combustion engine having cylinders arranged radially around a central crankcase

   Synonymsrotary engine

   Broaderinternal-combustion engine

Questions about radial engine

What does radial engine mean?

radial engine means "an internal-combustion engine having cylinders arranged radially around a central crankcase".

What is another word for radial engine?

Close synonyms include rotary engine. 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 radial engine a common word?

radial 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.