Otto engine


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Otto engine

[′äd·ō ‚en·jən]
(mechanical engineering)
An internal combustion engine that operates on the Otto cycle, where the phases of suction, compression, combustion, expansion, and exhaust occur sequentially in a four-stroke-cycle or two-stroke-cycle reciprocating mechanism.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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As boys, the Dissinger brothers had been apprenticed to the Philadelphia company that brought the first Otto engine to the U.S.
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inverted engine and a pair of 5 hp Otto engines (one running a winch, the other running a water pump).
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