Engine Vocab

Long round tank with thisck walls to hold gases under great pressure, Also containing the piston.

• Piston

• Governor

• Block

• Cylinder

A device that controls the flow of water or gas

• Carburetor

• Crankshaft

• Piston

• Valves

Compression stroke

• the restriction of air flow through the carburetor

• one coil is made of several hundred turns of a heavy gauge wire

• The upward motion of the piston in the cylinder

• Another wire consists of several thousands turns of a fine-gauge wire

External combustion engine

• Engine process of taking fuel and air into the combustion chamber

• device that burns fuel inside a cylinder to create a force that drives a piston

• engine that runs on a series of four strokes, or piston movements, per cycle.

• Engine that gets it heat from feul consumed outisde the engine

An engine with two strokes per cylce

• Two-cycle engine

• Four-cycle engine

Complete the seal between the piston and cylinder wall

• camshaft

• crankshaft

• piston rings

• valves

engine process in which burning fuel expands rapidly but evenly to drive the piston down

• power stroke

• exhaust stroke

• compression stroke

• intake stroke

device thast burns feul inside a cylinder to create a force that drives a piston

• steam turbine

• exhaust stroke

• internal combustion engine

• external combustion engine

Four-cycle engine

• engine that runs on a series of four strokes, or piston movements, per cycle.

• device that burns fuel inside a cylinder to create a force that drives a piston

• Engine that gets it heat from fuel consumed outside the engine

Exhaust stroke

• Movement of the piston that expels burned gases from the cylinder

• Engine process of taking fuel and air into the combustion chamber

• engine process in which burning fuel expands rapidly but evenly to drive the piston down