thermoacoustic engine

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thermoacoustic engine [¦thər·mō·ə¦kü·stik ′en·jən]

(engineering)

A heat engine that harnesses the combination of the pressure oscillations of a sound wave with the accompanying adiabatic temperature oscillations.

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