rotary engine

Questions about rotary engine

What does rotary engine mean?

rotary engine means "an internal-combustion engine in which power is transmitted directly to rotating components". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for rotary engine?

Close synonyms include radial 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 rotary engine a common word?

rotary engine 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.