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    The Spring Engine (also termed SpringRTS and formerly TA Spring) is a game engine for real-time strategy (RTS) video games. The game engine is free and...
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  • manufactured in multiple locations, to include Spring Hill Manufacturing, in Spring Hill, Tennessee, with engine blocks and cylinder heads cast at Saginaw...
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    Before the advent of the starter motor, engines were started by various methods including wind-up springs, gunpowder cylinders, and human-powered techniques...
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    An engine or motor is a machine designed to convert one or more forms of energy into mechanical energy. Available energy sources include potential energy...
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    compression; thus, the diesel engine is called a compression-ignition engine (CI engine). This contrasts with engines using spark plug-ignition of the...
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    Godot (/ˈɡɒdoʊ/) is a cross-platform, free and open-source game engine released under the permissive MIT license. It was initially developed in Buenos...
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    concept — that is, putting the mid-mounted (relative to the wheelbase) engine at the driver's left (a similar idea, with the driver in an offset gondola...
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  • in the visible spectrum Spring (application), an E-commerce platform Spring (game engine), an open-source RTS engine Spring (operating system), an experimental...
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    A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. The steam engine uses the force produced by steam pressure...
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  • level editor. The "engine" terminology is akin to the term "software engine" used more widely in the software industry. Game engine can also refer to the...
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    A search engine is a software system that provides hyperlinks to web pages and other relevant information on the Web in response to a user's query. The...
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    Initially based on content from Total Annihilation on the open source Spring Engine, it was forked and all proprietary content replaced, and evolved into...
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  • Thumbnail for Analytical engine
    The analytical engine was a proposed digital mechanical general-purpose computer designed by English mathematician and computer pioneer Charles Babbage...
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  • Thumbnail for Engine control unit
    engine control unit (ECU), also called an engine control module (ECM), is a device which controls multiple systems of an internal combustion engine in...
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    Desmodromic valve (category Engine valves)
    a reciprocating engine poppet valve that is positively closed by a cam and leverage system, rather than by a more conventional spring. The valves in a...
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  • Thumbnail for General Motors LS-based small-block engine
    The General Motors LS-based small-block engines are a family of V8 and V6 engines designed and manufactured by American automotive company General Motors...
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    A spring is a device consisting of an elastic but largely rigid material (typically metal) bent or molded into a form (especially a coil) that can return...
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    lost the energy stored within the compressed air, there is no "spring back" so the engine must expend yet more energy pulling the piston back down again...
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    A difference engine is an automatic mechanical calculator designed to tabulate polynomial functions. It was designed in the 1820s, and was first created...
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  • Thumbnail for Internal combustion engine
    An internal combustion engine (ICE or IC engine) is a heat engine in which the combustion of a fuel occurs with an oxidizer (usually air) in a combustion...
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    The Wankel engine (/ˈvaŋkəl̩/, VUN-kell) is a type of internal combustion engine using an eccentric rotary design to convert pressure into rotating motion...
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  • One engines were limited to around 12,000 rpm due to the traditional metal springs used to close the valves. The speed required to operate the engine valves...
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  • Thumbnail for Stirling engine
    A Stirling engine is a heat engine that is operated by the cyclic expansion and contraction of air or other gas (the working fluid) by exposing it to...
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  • Annihilation, independently developed the open-source 3D graphics Spring game engine. The Total Annihilation 3D project began in 2006. Former lead designer...
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    automobile diesel engines introduced by Mercedes-Benz in 2016. This is one of the most powerful 2-liter inline-4 cylinder diesel engines with a single twin-scroll...
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  • The Mercedes-Benz OM648 engine is a 3.2 Litre, straight-6 4 valves per cylinder, cast iron block diesel engine manufactured by the Mercedes-Benz division...
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    the end of the valve stem, with a spring generally being used to return the valve to the closed position. At high engine speeds (RPM), the weight of the...
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    A flathead engine, also known as a sidevalve engine or valve-in-block engine, is an internal combustion engine with its poppet valves contained within...
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    belt-driven engine cooling fans often use a heat-activated clutch, in the form of a bimetallic strip. When the temperature is low, the spring winds and...
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    a family of rocket engines developed and manufactured by SpaceX. The engine is a full-flow staged combustion cycle (FFSC) engine powered by cryogenic...
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