Talk:petrol engine

RFD discussion: July–October 2018
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 * It is a British term, so what do Americans call them? DonnanZ (talk) 18:50, 8 July 2018 (UTC)
 * gasoline engines, which is SOP, too. Chuck Entz (talk) 02:14, 9 July 2018 (UTC)
 * OK, not a gas engine. Keep this for translations, and gasoline engine can be redirected here. DonnanZ (talk) 07:50, 9 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete per proponent. Per utramque cavernam 08:35, 11 July 2018 (UTC)


 * Wikidata. I am confused by Finnish ottomoottori and German Ottomotor given in the entry. Are they correct as translations of "petrol engine"? If they are, does the attribute "petrol" tend to pick the most stereotypical kinds of petrol engines to the exclusion of some other engines that use petrol? Heinkel HeS 3 is a jet engine that uses gasoline; is that considered to be a "gasoline engine" or "petrol engine"? For some reasons, I was also thinking of Wankel engine (Wikidata), but nothing interesting came out of it. Coordinate terms include diesel engine and gas engine. Collins has "petrol engine", defined as a kind of "internal-combustion engine"; WT:LEMMING? A further confusion: German Ottomotor says it is a "four-stroke engine"; that would mean that Two-stroke_engine would not be a Ottomotor, where Two-stroke_engine does use gasoline, so not every gasoline engine would be a de:Ottomotor. Since Duden:Ottomotor does not mention anything about "four-stroke", maybe our Ottomotor entry is just wrong about it. --Dan Polansky (talk) 19:51, 5 October 2018 (UTC)