v-engine
V-Engine
Definitions
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- : an internal-combustion engine having two opposed banks of cylinders inclined so that they form a V-shaped angle.
Examples
The jet engine instantly brought two advances over propellers: it doubled the speed and it was far more reliable.
The Supreme Court eventually stepped in and ended legal segregation in the landmark 1954 decision, Brown v. Board of Education.
An F-35 was destroyed on takeoff earlier in the year when a design flaw in its Pratt & Whitney F135 engine sparked a fire.
Texas has also started to become an engine of economic growth.
Clearly, the least cool people are the most in-demand: the rich folks who power the Art Basel engine.
U was an Usurer, a miserable elf; V was a Vintner, who drank all himself.
It was only the engine drawing the train of cars up to the station to take the passengers away.
“Mon pauvre petit, you are hungry,” said Aristide, carrying it to the car racked by the clattering engine.
Adjoining the engine-house on the other side, is the stable, where five splendid horses are kept.
The huge engine, the wonderful carriages, the imposing guard, the busy porters and the bustling station.