diesel

n. compression-ignition engine which runs on diesel fuel; vehicle which has a diesel engine

Diesel or diesel fuel (; voiced "s" because of its eponym) is a specific fractional distillate of fuel oil (mostly petroleum) that is used as fuel in a diesel engine invented by German engineer Rudolf Diesel. The term typically refers to fuel that has been processed from petroleum, but increasingly, alternatives such as biodiesel or biomass to liquid (BTL) or gas to liquid (GTL) diesel that are not derived from petroleum are being developed and adopted. Although Rudolph Diesel's name has become attached to the compression combustion engine and the fuel that it consumes, he was not first to invent the diesel engine. His patent was filed in 1893. However Herbert Akroyd Stuart, built the first compression-ignition oil engine in Bletchley, England, in 1891. He leased the rights to Richard Hornsby & Sons in July 1892, five years before Diesel's prototype was built.
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Noun
1. German engineer (born in France) who invented the diesel engine (1858-1913)
(synonym) Rudolf Diesel, Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel
(hypernym) engineer, applied scientist, technologist

Noun
1. an internal-combustion engine that burns heavy oil
(synonym) diesel engine, diesel motor
(hypernym) internal-combustion engine, ICE
(part-holonym) diesel locomotive

n. diesel, compression-ignition engine which runs on diesel fuel; vehicle which has a diesel engine

n. diesel, compression-ignition engine which runs on diesel fuel; vehicle which has a diesel engine