heat engine

heat engine

English

Noun

heat engine (plural heat engines)

1. (thermodynamics) Any device which converts heat energy into mechanical work, by moving heat from a source to a sink.

Hyponyms

• Carnot engine
• drinking bird

Translations

device for converting heat

Finnish: lämpökone Romanian: motor termic n

Russian: теплова́я маши́на (ru) f (teplovája mašína)

See also

• information engine