Reciprocating engine

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6-2-010

An engine which employs a piston working in a cylinder, the piston being caused to execute reciprocating motion by the periodic pressure of the working fluid.

Please note that this is the term as it stands in the original IALA Dictionary edition (1970-1989)

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