Definitions for two-cycle

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two-cycle two-cy·cle

Spelling: [too-sahy-kuh l]

IPA: /ˈtuˌsaɪ kəl/

Two-Cycle is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 155 anagrams from letters in two-cycle (-ccelotwy).

Definitions for two-cycle

adjective

1. 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.

Origin of two-cycle

First recorded in 1900-05

Examples for two-cycle

In a two-cycle engine there is one working stroke in two traverses.

On these types of two-cycle engines where a two-diameter cylinder is employed, the piston shown at E is used.

In 1880 he began to commercialize a two-cycle stationary engine.

When a single-cylinder engine is used, it should be of the two-cycle type.

two-cycle motors have been designed which combine the principles of action of both the155 two- and three-port types.

Thus it is plain that the motor is of the four-cycle type and it should not be confounded with two-cycle motors.

Thus eight pounds per square inch is about the usual limit of crank case compression with this type of two-cycle motor.

It will thus be seen that the piston of the two-cycle motor acts as a pump in two ways.

There are many different makes of two-cycle motors, of course, and all have their various merits.

It certainly cannot become a perfect mixture in the time of a stroke of a high-speed motor of the two-cycle class.