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From Middle English engin < Old French engin (“‘skill", "cleverness", "war machine’”) < Latin ingenium (“‘innate or natural quality, nature, genius, a genious, an invention, in LL. a war-engine, battering-ram’”) < ingenitum, past participle of ingignere (“‘to instil by birth, implant, produce in’”); see ingenious. Engine originally meant 'ingenuity, cunning' which eventually developed into meaning 'the product of ingenuity, a plot or snare' and 'tool, weapon'.
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engine (plural engines)
- A mechanical device used to produce rotation to move vehicle or otherwise provide the force needed to generate kinetic energy.
- A powered locomotive used for pulling cars on railways.
- A person or group of people which influence a larger group.
- (informal) the brain or heart.
- (computing) A software system, not a complete program, responsible for a technical task (as in layout engine, physics engine).
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terms related to engineExternal links
- engine in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- engine in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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