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two-cycle
[ too-sahy-kuhl ]
adjective
- noting or pertaining to an internal-combustion engine in which two strokes are required to complete a cycle two-stroke cycle, one to admit and compress air or an air-fuel mixture and one to ignite fuel, do work, and scavenge the cylinder.
two-cycle
adjective
- relating to or designating an internal-combustion engine whose piston makes two strokes for every explosion Also called (in Britain and certain other countries)two-stroke See four-stroke
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Word History and Origins
Origin of two-cycle1
First recorded in 1900–05
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Example Sentences
It developed a nice, unpleasant two-cycle throb that threatened to shake the ship apart.
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The steady two-cycle throb did more damage than it would normally have done aboard a non-experimental ship.
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It certainly cannot become a perfect mixture in the time of a stroke of a high-speed motor of the two-cycle class.
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Two-cycle motors have been designed which combine the principles of action of both the155 two- and three-port types.
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The exhaust gases of the ordinary two-cycle motor pass out of the exhaust port as it is uncovered by the descent of the piston.
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