English
Noun
engine block (plural engine blocks)
- The metal structure (traditionally and usually a casting) that contains the cylinders of a piston engine.
- Synonym: cylinder block
- Hypernym: block (elliptically synonymous)
Without any antifreeze in the coolant, the coolant froze, causing the engine block to crack.
Translations
component containing cylinders of piston engine
- Catalan: bloc motor m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 氣缸體 / 气缸体 (qìgāngtǐ)
- Czech: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: motorblok (nl) n
- Finnish: sylinterilohko (fi)
- French: bloc-moteur (fr) m, bloc-cylindres (fr) m
- German: Motorblock (de) m
- Italian: please add this translation if you can
- Japanese: please add this translation if you can
- Khmer: ប្លុកម៉ាស៊ីន (plok maasiin)
- Korean: 실린더 블록 (sillindeo beullok)
- Polish: blok (pl) m
- Romanian: bloc motor (ro) n
- Russian: блок дви́гателя m (blok dvígatelja), блок цили́ндра m (blok cilíndra)
- Spanish: bloque del motor m
- Swedish: motorblock n
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
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