Piston
Meaning of Piston
noun
a disc or short cylinder fitting closely within a tube in which it moves up and down against a liquid or gas, used in an internal combustion engine to derive motion, or in a pump to impart motion.
early 18th century: from French, from Italian pistone, variant of pestone ‘large pestle’, augmentative of pestello ‘pestle’.
Information about Piston
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Hyphenation of Piston
Pis-ton
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- Piston is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Piston synonyms
Meaning plunger:
Anagrams of Piston
instop, Pinots, pinots, pintos, pitons, points, pontis, postin, potins, spinto
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