Definitions for four-cycle

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four-cycle four-cy·cle

Spelling: [fawr-sahy-kuh l, fohr-]

IPA: /ˈfɔrˌsaɪ kəl, ˈfoʊr-/

Four-Cycle is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 247 anagrams from letters in four-cycle (-ccefloruy).

Definitions for four-cycle

adjective

1. noting or pertaining to an internal-combustion engine in which a complete cycle in each cylinder requires four strokes, one to draw in air or an air-fuel mixture, one to compress it, one to ignite it and do work, and one to scavenge the cylinder.

Origin of four-cycle

First recorded in 1905-10

Examples for four-cycle

In a four-cycle engine the piston must travel twice up and down in each cylinder, to deliver one power stroke.

As to disadvantages:—In a four-cycle engine there is but one working stroke in four piston traverses.

The average compression pressure of a two- or four-cycle engine of the ordinary type, is from 60 to 70 pounds per square inch.

The greater number of engines used in automobiles to-day are of the kind known as the Otto cycle, or four-cycle, engine.

The two-cycle engine is simpler in construction than the four-cycle, having no valves.

This is true with either one of two forms of four-cycle motors.

The four-cycle engines have been so far subjected to much more rigid and authoritative tests than those of the two-cycle.

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

At the top is shown the torque diagram of a single-cylinder motor of the four-cycle type.

It shows clearly all parts of a typical four-cylinder gasoline engine of the four-cycle type.